:) ;) :/ in Messages app

Why these emoticon do not translate automatically in emoji in message? I

s there a way to do that?

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6), Mac Pro early 2008

Posted on Feb 5, 2017 11:28 AM

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Feb 12, 2017 3:01 PM in response to Eric Root

I clicked solved by mistake... 😉 Here on this forum (Not sure we can still call it a forum with the new interface) typing ";)" is automatically transformed in 😉 .... Good! But it is not like that on in my message app so young audience with don't event know ";)" means 😉 tell me I have problems with my emoji...

Is there a way to have ";)" I mean 😉 without to waste the time to click, then scroll, then chose the right emoji (emoticon, I mean)

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/06/difference-between-emoji-and- emoticons-explained

Feb 12, 2017 3:23 PM in response to cavemees

This is great! Thank you cavemees!

So now you have to be a power user to use a Mac... 😉


OT: About the new UI here (new from 2014... but I can't get use to it) I found this on another site

Quite honestly I thought Apple's Discussions were significantly more useful quite a while ago when you could simply browse through the ongoing discussions in the various categories. You could see who was posting and you could either answer a question, tag along with a relevant question in an ongoing discussion, or start a new thread. There was a real sense of belonging and you could almost get to know the major contributors to the discussions. I find the forums somewhat less useful and helpful in the newer versions.

What people used to it think now?

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