Subj : Re: the use of tgm smilies..
To   : Wilfred van Velzen
From : Charles Pierson
Date : Mon Nov 23 2020 09:13:09

Hello, Wilfred van Velzen.
On 11/23/20 3:48 PM you wrote:

 WV> Hi August, On 2020-11-23 09:23:00, you wrote to me:
 AA>> Is there a way we can capture the smilie code and help Stas build 
 AA>> a translation table or something?
 WV> I copied a smiley from the telegram client into an editor, saved 
 WV> it, and then hexdumped it: ;-) = f0 9f 98 89 Not too difficult...
 AA>> Or.. since there are a tonne of those smilies in various 
 AA>> categories, maybe they can just be stripped out of the messages?
 WV> Then you still need to know the code. It's only a little bit more 
 WV> work to replace it with an ascii string.

It shouldn't be too difficult.  The chat function in an MMORPG that I used to play years ago did it in reverse.

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