Bug Report - Character Map bug

[Joe Scharle]

I'm seeing a few these lately.

I (at age 3 pay (cut & pasted)

I just composed a reply to a mg and I can dupe it there but not here. (38)

 

[ptt49er]

It's a shortcut to get that smiley 8) if it was typed ( 38 ) it wouldn't do it, but when typed (38) is does
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[Bas]

It's a shortcut to get that smiley 8) if it was typed ( 38 ) it wouldn't do it, but when typed (38) is does
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Since this smiley was retired, I'll change the character map. The new code will be :-8 and then the ). There appears to be some caching, so it may take a bit to show up.
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[froglips]

To follow up what Phillip and Bas said....

Its the never ending battle between :qleft7: emoticons and smilies. :qright5:

Emoticons are when you see/use the keyboard characters such as ; - ) vs :wink:

The system has a few emoticons cross referenced to smilies.

Its a catch 22 as some of the common character based emoticons do nicely become smilies. :dontknow:

Jim
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[Joe Scharle]

There you go, Bas! Sounds like a good workaround.
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[Bas]

The other option was to ban people from the site that are 38 years old, so they can't accidentally type (38). It was a close second
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[Joe Scharle]

Don't forget to ban the use of three eights (3/8) lumber sizes too!
:gar-La;
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