[Pidgin] #1187: Send Custom Emoticons in MSN

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#1187: Send Custom Emoticons in MSN
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  Reporter:  salinasv  |       Owner:  sadrul  
      Type:  patch     |      Status:  assigned
  Priority:  minor     |   Milestone:          
 Component:  MSN       |     Version:  2.0     
Resolution:            |    Keywords:          
   Pending:  0         |  
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Comment (by malu):

 Replying to [comment:164 sadrul]:
 > I have
 http://pidgin.im/~sadrul/pp/custom_smiley_on_supported_accounts.patch,
 which seems to work OK with MSN.
 >
 > malu: Do you think that's going to work on XMPP with your patch? If the
 overhead bandwidth is not huge (I suspect it isn't), it's probably OK to
 send out the stuff even if the buddy doesn't see them; I don't really
 know.

 I think that will work well. Since the smiley's shortcut is set as the
 img's alt attribute, an XHTML-IM parser should ideally show that if it
 doesn't want show the image. The overhead will typically be quite small.
 I've been using some smileys I found in some "Smiley pack for Messenger",
 they are basically < 2 kB. When sending a message containing such a smiley
 to myself (taking a trip back and forth under the Atlantic) I can't say I
 can notice any difference from a text-only message. And at least in Psi
 and Gmail the other user still sees the shortcut.

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