Re: Microsoft patents emoticons!

From: Lee Sau Dan (danlee_at_informatik.uni-freiburg.de)
Date: 08/17/05 

Date: 17 Aug 2005 13:20:37 +0800

>>>>> "David" == David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com> writes:

>> Yes. Japanese text are usually encoded with multiple bytes.
>> And Japanese fonts do map multiple string bytes to a single
>> glyph. (The glyph could be a bitmap or an outline.)

    David> that was an emoticon?

Define "emoticon"!

What makes the Kanji for "smile" less an emoticon than the smiley ":)"?

    David> And wherein the combination of characters was detected and
    David> the bitmap substituted?

>> Gnus/Emacs has been able to do that for years.

    David> Being able to do something is not the same thing as
    David> using it for a particular application.

Which particular application? 

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