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  • Bug#264861: gaim: Some Yahoo emoticons do not display

    From Dominic Cleal@1:229/2 to Dominic Cleal on Wed Aug 11 22:00:12 2004
    From: [email protected]

    On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:01:32 +0100
    Dominic Cleal <[email protected]> wrote:

    Package: gaim
    Version: 1:0.81-1
    Severity: normal

    Hello,

    On the latest 0.81-1 release, some Yahoo emoticons fail to replace the

    text. Not sure if this is to do with the change log entry for Gaim ( http://gaim.sf.net/ChangeLog ) that says "Better smiley substitution"
    or not.

    Emoticons I've found so far that don't work are:

    :) :( :-s

    and all on Yahoo. It seems MSN and AIM (don't know about other
    protocols) emoticons are be fine, at least the ones I've used.

    Thanks.

    I'm still having this problem - can anybody else confirm?

    I've discovered that if you write the emoticon and put a space or other words/characters after it, it will display as normal. However if I use
    the emoticon at the end of a line, then it doesn't show.

    So if I send

    testing :)

    it doesn't work and I just see the text "testing :)" but

    testing :) emoticons

    shows the smiley emoticon as expected. It also only appears to happen
    to my text in a conversation, i.e. the other person's emoticons all
    appear as normal.

    I'd have thought this is an upstream bug, but I don't have any
    non-Debian machines at the moment to put 0.81 on and test. As I said
    before, this only happens on Yahoo and as far as I can tell, only :), :(
    and :-s emoticons.

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  • From Luke Schierer@1:229/2 to All on Wed Aug 11 22:10:07 2004
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    the string

    :) :( :-s

    the last one works. that's as much testing as i've done on this.

    luke


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  • From Dominic Cleal@1:229/2 to Luke Schierer on Fri Aug 13 13:20:09 2004
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    On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 15:55:38 -0400
    Luke Schierer <[email protected]> wrote:

    the string

    :) :( :-s

    the last one works. that's as much testing as i've done on this.

    luke

    Hm, I can reproduce it here by opening a window to another person
    on Yahoo then if I type:

    :) :( :-s

    In my window, where it shows my text, I'll see the emoticons displayed
    for :), :( but as there is no space or other text after :-s then it
    wouldn't be substituted.

    However if the other person sends to me that string, they would all
    display fine (AFAIK). I think it's just a problem for text that I
    write.

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