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, Yahoo Messenger #255, AIM #257, Google #252, phpBB #281, vBulletin.
Conclusion
While it's not entirely clear for many Microsoft emoticons, which Unicode emoji best represents it, there are few left that have no obvious standard equivalent whatsoever:
[ ] Whatever
[ ] Envious
[ ] Innocent
[x] Freezing #216 (Unicode 11)
[x] Ninja #5
[ ] Punk
[x] Money #137
Some emoticons would rather need emoji sequences to be represented well:
MSN/Windows Live Messenger
Emoticons
;-)
;)
:-(
:(
:-)
:)
:-[
:[
:-@
:@
:-*
:-#
:-\|
:\|
:-$
:$
:-D
:d
:-O
:o
:-P
:p
:-S
:s
:'(
:^)
*-)
^o)
+o(
<:o)
<o)
\|-)
8-)
8-\|
8o\|
;-\
;@
:-\
:'\|
:]
:}
:8)
:-[
:[
:-\
:>
Kaomoji etc.
<3
*\
*\|
({)
(})
(@)
(*)
(&)
(#)
(^)
(\|\|)
(~)
(6)
(8)
('.')
*p*
*s*
Single Letter in Parentheses
(A)
(a)
(B)
(b)
(C)
(c)
(D)
(d)
(E)
(e)
(F)
(f)
(G)
(g)
(H)
(h)
(I)
(i)
(j)
(K)
(k)
(L)
(l)
(M)
(m)
(N)
(n)
(O)
(o)
(P)
(p)
(R)
(S)
(s)
(T)
(t)
(U)
(u)
(W)
(w)
(X)
(x)
(Y)
(y)
(Z)
(z)
(v)
Two Letters in Parentheses
(ap)
(au)
(co)
(ff)
(fm)
(h5)
(ip)
(jk)
(li)
(mo)
(mp)
(pi)
(pl)
(pu)
(sn)
(so)
(st)
(tu)
(um)
(wm)
(wo)
(xo)
(xx)
(yn)
Three or More Letters in Parentheses
(bah)
(boo)
(brb)
(bus)
(lol)
(nah)
(nnh)
(rotfl)
Conclusion
While it's not entirely clear for many Microsoft emoticons, which Unicode emoji best represents it, there are few left that have no obvious standard equivalent whatsoever:
Some emoticons would rather need emoji sequences to be represented well: