Emoticons are things like :) that are used to convey emotion ("smiley" in this case). Emoji (e.g. ^_^) are the same, but originate from Japan. ASCII art is a more general form of creating art using ASCII characters -- for example
@}-,-`-
is used to signify a rose.
Emoticons and emoji also have Unicode entries.
These should be detected as an emoticon event type, and spoken accordingly.
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Emoticons are things like
:)that are used to convey emotion ("smiley" in this case). Emoji (e.g.^_^) are the same, but originate from Japan. ASCII art is a more general form of creating art using ASCII characters -- for exampleis used to signify a rose.
Emoticons and emoji also have Unicode entries.
These should be detected as an emoticon event type, and spoken accordingly.