OT smiley

What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*

Rene

On 12/17/2018 10:59 AM, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
What happens when you bold a smiley like soÂ*Â*Â*Â* *:-)*

Rene

Looks like *nothing* on my screen :


Rene

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

Rene Lamontagne wrote:

What happens when you bold a smiley like soÂ*Â*Â*Â* *:-)*

Looks like *nothing* on my screenÂ*Â* :

I think the faux bold/underline/italics stop at non-alphanumerics, in
thunderbird at least ...

On 17/12/2018 16:59, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
What happens when you bold a smiley like soÂ*Â*Â*Â* *:-)*

Rene
Plain
Bold(tight) **
Bold(spaced) * *

On 12/17/2018 11:47 AM, Patrick wrote:
On 17/12/2018 16:59, Rene Lamontagne wrote:
What happens when you bold a smiley like soÂ*Â*Â*Â* *:-)*

Rene
Plain
Bold(tight) **
Bold(spaced) * *

Thanks for all the replies.

Rene

"Rene Lamontagne" wrote

| What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*
|

For those of use who read news in plain text it
looks like:

asterisk colon dash right parenthesis asterisk.

Like maybe you were choking as you wrote your
post and then accidentally hit Send just before falling
off your chair. I hope you're OK now.

On 12/17/2018 3:23 PM, Mayayana wrote:
"Rene Lamontagne" wrote

| What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*
|

For those of use who read news in plain text it
looks like:

asterisk colon dash right parenthesis asterisk.

Like maybe you were choking as you wrote your
post and then accidentally hit Send just before falling
off your chair. I hope you're OK now.



I do all my reading and writing in plain text, I was just curious as I
am about many things.

Rene

On 17/12/2018 21:23, Mayayana wrote:
"Rene Lamontagne" wrote

| What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*
|

For those of use who read news in plain text it
looks like:

asterisk colon dash right parenthesis asterisk.

Like maybe you were choking as you wrote your
post and then accidentally hit Send just before falling
off your chair. I hope you're OK now.


:-D

--
Regards,
David B.

https://vxer.home.blog/2018/12/08/vxer-a-profile/

On 17 Dec 2018, Rene Lamontagne wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*

I suppose you want it to signify that you're smiling boldly?? What it
actually does is completely dependent on your newsreader or mail agent.
Some of them are "smart" enough to recognize some common emoticons and
substitute a cutesy little picture. The character sequence :-) is a
common one that's been used for decades. The same sequence surrounded
by asterisks means nothing and is rightly ignored.

On 12/17/2018 8:31 PM, Nil wrote:
On 17 Dec 2018, Rene Lamontagne wrote in
alt.comp.os.windows-10:

What happens when you bold a smiley like so *:-)*

I suppose you want it to signify that you're smiling boldly?? What it
actually does is completely dependent on your newsreader or mail agent.
Some of them are "smart" enough to recognize some common emoticons and
substitute a cutesy little picture. The character sequence :-) is a
common one that's been used for decades. The same sequence surrounded
by asterisks means nothing and is rightly ignored.


Thanks NIL

Rene