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Symbols in emails.
« on: Saturday 24 October 15 18:50 BST (UK) »


On writing an email just  now I noticed that (6) converts itself to a devil, and (8) to a musical note.
If I leave a space between the brackets then they don`t appear 
What`s going on.  ???
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 24 October 15 18:51 BST (UK) »
(6)   (8) 
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 24 October 15 18:52 BST (UK) »
How odd, the 8 eight is now a cool dude .
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 24 October 15 19:26 BST (UK) »
I think it depends on the particular text editor as to whether/how brackets are converted to the dreaded 'emoticons'  >:(

My email client has a 'plain text only' option somewhere in the settings, so I guess most others do too.

Leaving a gap after the opening and before the closing bracket usually avoids the problem.

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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:29 BST (UK) »
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10)

just testing to see that happens here.

one to ten in brackets
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:30 BST (UK) »
( 8 )
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« Reply #6 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:30 BST (UK) »
(8)
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:31 BST (UK) »
Well - changing to plain text in emails worked, but still not on here
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Re: Symbols in emails.
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 24 October 15 20:58 BST (UK) »
if you click on the 'cool' dude in a reply on here and look in the text box, you see a round bracket and 8 displayed.

all emoticons are based on a combination of charcters, not all of them are recognised on Rootschat

There is a 'remove formating' button (under the 'change colour' drop down box) but it doesn't seem to work on emoticons.

I'll ask Trystan for a reply.

(other than that don't type 8 followed by a round bracket)
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