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Finally. What the hell. I thought I was out on some joke, or for some reason a lot of people at my company ended their sentences with "J" like "JK" but were laz
by alttab 16y ago
Finally. What the hell. I thought I was out on some joke, or for some reason a lot of people at my company ended their sentences with "J" like "JK" but were lazy.
I do my work on a Mac and I use the default mail client. I figure those sending me e-mails do so through outlook. I get this stray "J" all the time.
When I saw the title of this link it elated me because I was finally going to figure out what the hell was going on.
- nailer 16y agoWhat a horrible thing to do by Microsoft. either they're naive enough to think people won't ever read email outside Windows, or, more likely, clever and arrogant enough to deliberately degrade the experience for non Windows recipients.
- alanh 16y agoI also assumed Hotmail was intentionally degrading messages received in (explicit) Unicode from gmail. My em and en dashes showed up in Hotmail as oddly accented As, leaving Hotmail users to assume there was something wrong with Gmail.
- lovskogen 16y agoMessages like "I like your latest work, j/k"?
- alttab 16y agoYeah it confused me for a long time. After enough time and context I figured it was something that amounted to a happy face or a wink or something, but was some start-up colloquialism I missed out on.
- archangel_one 16y agoI use Thunderbird which also doesn't render the smiley face - even on Windows where Wingdings is installed. It doesn't seem to want to let me choose that as a font in e-mails - no great loss I'd say. Didn't take me all that long to figure out that it was supposed to be a smiley face though - seemed pretty obvious from context?