Martin said:
is there a program/add-on/utility for Outlook that will add emoticons
to the keyboard like Emoji does for the iphone?
http://www.google.com/search?q=outlook+add-on+emoticon
Since emoticons are just text strings, you could add your own emoticon
strings in your e-mail body. Of course, you're assuming the recipient
is using an e-mail client that builds pretty images (emoticons) based on
those strings instead of just seeing a bunch of otherwise garbage text.
I'm assuming you are asking about actual emoticons which are just text
strings versus inline attachment of face images.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons
They're just text strings. Googling can find other lists of emoticon
text strings.
Because of ever increasing usage, the emoticon markup language (EML or
EmotionML) got created; see:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_Markup_Language
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/WD-emotionml-20100729/
http://www.w3.org/TR/2012/CR-emotionml-20120510/
HTML is also just text, too; however, most non-programmer type users
don't want to learn any markup language. The spec isn't ratified yet.
It's still just a draft but considered stable enough for developers to
consider for incorporation into their products yet I doubt any e-mail
client yet supports it. Those that support emoticons are probably just
inserting the simple text strings as noted above and the sender is
hoping the recipient's e-mail client parses out those strings but often
results in corruption of content due to bad parsing.
