L2/09-007 Comparison of Emoticons from Major Vendors by Arle Lommel: Unification of emoticon characters with current proposals for encoding emoji (v1.5, 2008-12-26) โ Skype #253, Microsoft Messenger #256, Yahoo Messenger, AIM #257, Google #252, phpBB #281, vBulletin.
Conclusion
While some Yahoo emoticons have no definite Unicode counterpart, but several closely related ones, some have no standard equivalent at all or would require a canonical emoji sequence:
Yahoo
;;)
;))
;)
:-??
:-?
:-"
:-@
:-*
:-/
:-&
:-<
:-$
:-B
:-j
:-L
:-O
:-S
:-SS
:!!
:((
:(
:(\|)
:))
:)]
:)
:)>-
:@)
:^o
:>
:\|
:D
:O)
:o3
:P
:x
(:\|
[-(
[-o<
[-x
@-)
*-:)
/:)
#-o
#:-S
%-(
<:-P
<):)
=;
=:)
=">
=((
=))
=D>
=P~
>-)
>:)
>:/
>:P
\|-)
~:>
~X(
$-)
3:-O
8-}
8->
8-\|
8-X
b-(
b-)
B-)
L-)
O:)
X(
>:D<
\:D/
^:)^
^#(^
X_X
[..]
:-bd
:-c
:-h
:-q
:-t
:-w
:ar!
:bz
(*)
(%)
(~~)
@};-
**==
\m/
%%-
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0-+
o->
o=>
Proposals
Conclusion
While some Yahoo emoticons have no definite Unicode counterpart, but several closely related ones, some have no standard equivalent at all or would require a canonical emoji sequence: