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From: Arnold D. Robbins arnold@ske...
Subject: emoticons
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 23:25:00 -0400


> The utf paper says "why type :-) when you can use the character b:? 
> Under unix, sam supports <compose>:) to generate the happy face, but
> that Rune seems to be missing from /sys/src/9/port/latin1.c.  Should
> we add :), :( and ;) to the table?

Yeah, I asked bobf to include that in the Unix version of sam and he
did, I guess it didn't make it back into the master plan 9 version.

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