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I'm with you. I put a space between the : and the ) to prevent the graphic emoji : )


That automatic emoji concept can be quite annoying sometimes.

For instance, Outlook 365 will automatically turn "B)" into the "smiling face with sunglasses" emoji. I cannot fathom this use case. Apparently someone at Microsoft thought that things like, oh, a fairly common styling of a simple lettered list (A) Do this B) Do that C) Etc.) and parenthesized words / sentences ending in capital B (abbreviations will get you there, like say BBB) are not very common in corporate communication. The need for a smiling face sunglasses clad emoji was much stronger. Go figure.


Pasting bash snippets into chat is so frustrating when clients try to render emojis :/


Fortran also suffers from this problem:

real, intent(in) :: f(:,:,:)


Going the other way often works too! (:


Which looks like a bald person without a mouth to me :-)

Somehow I've become accustomed to 'read' emoji as tilting your head to the left. Turning the emoji around always reminds me of German books, which often have the title upside down on the book spine compared to English / Dutch books.




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