Re: CHAT: Intonation surrogates in online text

Lars Henrik Mathiesen wrote:

> If Kibo hath given thee smileys, it must be because he didn't want
> them himself. But he is still giving us EXCESSIVE CAPITALIZATION and
> lots of exclamation marks!!!! Let's take those instead, so Kibo can go
> back to not using smileys.
Nay; for the genius of the prophet was in distinguishing
positive from negative, nice from nasty, smile from sneer.
In unix X-window, we have the Gumby and the Jolly Roger,
but they are not easy to type. I fear that HTML will
eventually take over email and we will speak unicode.