DWIDM (Doing What I Don't Mean)

[jducoeur]

Okay, yes -- it's nice that Microsoft products auto-translate the standard emoticons into cute icons in many of their products. But may I say how annoying it is that they go so far overboard? When I say "(b)" in the company wiki, it means I have a list labeled "(a)", "(b)", "(c)", and so on. It does not mean "icon of a mug of beer"...

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[yakshaver.livejournal.com]

Not that I don't already try to avoid microsoft products whenever possible, but, please, tell me which of their products have this misfeature?

[jducoeur]

I believe it's in MSN Messenger, where it at least makes *some* sense to do this kind of auto-interpretation of emoticons. (I still think it's a misfeature, but it's one that some users would appreciate.)

But it's also in FlexWiki (the open-source .NET wiki system), which I think is just daft...