[Pidgin] #330: Emoticon inserting in conversations needs thinking about

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#330: Emoticon inserting in conversations needs thinking about
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  Reporter:  bluemonki     |       Owner:  kstange           
      Type:  enhancement   |      Status:  new               
  Priority:  minor         |   Milestone:                    
 Component:  pidgin (gtk)  |     Version:  2.0               
Resolution:                |    Keywords:  emoticons emoticon
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Comment (by bluemonki):

 Ok so it seems there are two types of emoticons:
 * Ones that use symbols rather than letters
 * User created ones that could match anything

 So I propose that you match the first kind of emoticons using the current
 method (no spaces).  This generally works fine, and will mean that if a
 user defines an icon that's just a special type of smiley it will act like
 the rest of them do.

 But for the second group (i.e. ones that match [a-z][A-Z]) then you _do_
 need to look for spaces between them, to stop icons like "Hi" turning up
 in the middle of other words.

 Do you think that sounds ok?  I'm guessing you get a list of custom icons
 from the MSN end, so you can probably sort them into the two groups and
 deal with them accordingly.  Maybe I should actually have a look and try a
 few things out....

 I don't know offhand how it works for the official client - but I'll do
 some testing and find out.

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