Smileys (Page 4): I would send a complaint to Hershey. They need to know that the workers who paint the M&M are slacking.

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

DirtFarmer wrote:

I got a bag of M&Ms once, but they were all mislabeled. About 1/4 of them were Ms, but there were also a lot of Ws, 3s, and Es. None was labelled M&M.

I would send a complaint to Hershey. They need to know that the workers who paint the M&M are slacking.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

Scruples wrote:

If you are commenting on a photograph, next to the PREVIEW Button, press on the word “Smilies.” You will see little faces. There is also one with a face and a thumbs up and a face with a thumbs down. It is that easy!

The right-click technique offers hundreds of choices.

Strodav Loc: Houston, Tx

On my wish list for UHH is to add likes, agrees and disagree checks at the bottom right of all posts and replies. That eliminates the need to add another quote reply just for smilies.

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

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DirtFarmer wrote:

I tried that in Word (Win10) and got ㈇. When I try it here I get •

The code in Word is Alt128077. Here it gives me M.

If you do it many times, do you get M&Ms?

On Win systems Alt077 is Alt code for M, depending on the code page you are using. Alt128077 is not a generally recognized alt code so your system is just reading the last 3 digits, 077 if your locale is set to English. Also, For smiley, ALT1 =☺ and ALT2 =☻.
Word Processors can and do use whatever they want.

For those with more interest, this is a good reference:
https://www.asciitable.com/

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

BigDaddy wrote:

On Win systems Alt077 is Alt code for M, depending on the code page you are using. Alt128077 is not a generally recognized alt code so your system is just reading the last 3 digits, 077 if your locale is set to English. Also, For smiley, ALT1 =☺ and ALT2 =☻.
Word Processors can and do use whatever they want.

For those with more interest, this is a good reference:
https://www.asciitable.com/

This is not ASCII, it’s unicode

BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

DirtFarmer wrote:

This is not ASCII, it’s unicode

I Never said it was ASCII code I said it was Alt Code.

The link I provided lists all sorts of code, including ASCII, Extended ASCII, Alt codes, Html code and more.
Apparently you didn't bother to check the link?

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

BigDaddy wrote:

I Never said it was ASCII code I said it was Alt Code.

The link I provided lists all sorts of code, including ASCII, Extended ASCII, Alt codes, Html code and more.
Apparently you didn't bother to check the link?

I did look at the link but on my phone the menu at the top of the page didn’t attract my attention, which was drawn to the large characters spelling out “Ascii Table”

Will check to see where I got the unicode when I get back to my computer. The phone doesn’t hack it.

Canisdirus

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BigDaddy Loc: Pittsburgh, PA

DirtFarmer wrote:

I did look at the link but on my phone the menu at the top of the page didn’t attract my attention, which was drawn to the large characters spelling out “Ascii Table”

Will check to see where I got the unicode when I get back to my computer. The phone doesn’t hack it.

True, the large ASCII Table is the first thing you notice. I think Unicode is ASCII code as are the ALT codes, at least a form of ASCII.
The big thing is what code table are you using. Different tables display different characters.

Most people don't fuss with any of them, and those that do mostly use the codes for degree °, copywrite © and cents ¢. Personally, I use ASCII mostly for drawing boxes around my menu's and stuff when writing REXX apps in a DOS (cmd) shell. ☻☺☻☺

DirtFarmer Loc: Escaped from the NYC area, back to MA

BigDaddy wrote:

True, the large ASCII Table is the first thing you notice. I think Unicode is ASCII code as are the ALT codes, at least a form of ASCII.
The big thing is what code table are you using. Different tables display different characters.

Most people don't fuss with any of them, and those that do mostly use the codes for degree °, copywrite © and cents ¢. Personally, I use ASCII mostly for drawing boxes around my menu's and stuff when writing REXX apps in a DOS (cmd) shell. ☻☺☻☺

Actually the link you provided (https://www.asciitable.com) has unicode included. I originally googled 'unicode thumbs' and got https://unicodeplus.com/U+1F44D. 1F44D (hexadecimal) is 128077 (decimal). If you look at your link, click on the 'unicode characters' link at the top (viewed on a computer, within the menu link viewed on a mobile device) you can find a link to unicode characters 1F300-1F4FF (Miscellaneous symbols and pictographs) toward the bottom of the list. That link points to https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1F300.pdf.

Thumbs up is found at 1F44D in that table. Thumbs down is at 1F44E.

ASCII is a limited set of 128 characters used in early telephone communications. Extended ASCII adds 128 more characters, but is still only 8 bit characters. I consider alt codes and unicode a completely separate set (although ASCII characters are included in unicode). Unicode is dynamic: more characters are being added all the time. The table in your link goes up to 24 bit characters.

I don't know the history, but I suspect the alt characters were created to be used by early word processors since they contain common characters (including the alphabetic characters in ASCII). Another topic to digress on.

I'm going to bookmark your link because in addition to ASCII, alt, and unicode it contains HTML escape characters which I have been known to use occasionally.

RonBoyd

traderjohn wrote:

Hit quote reply. Those options are; show smilies, and show tags near the preview option.