> the number of things you could express with ascii emojis is very limited Only limited by your imagination ... and sometimes your keyboard layout. :-þ There

> the number of things you could express with ascii emojis is very limited Only limited by your imagination ... and sometimes your keyboard layout. :-þ There is also the web-board convention of expressing smiley-faces using a word surrounded by commas, e.g. :facepalm: This degrades gracefully to human-readable text when not supported, unlike . Edit: An unsupported character was censored when I posted, thus proving my point.