Smileys in displayed URLs become inages

What are the steps to trigger the problem?

1) View tweet containing a URL including an accidental "smiley" (e.g. ":P" in  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing ) - e.g. 
http://dabr.co.uk/status/361519520269086720

2) Note smiley image between strings "User" and "igsonthewing"

What happened?

String coincidentally representing a smiley was converted to an image - see 
attached screenshot.

What did you expect to happen?

Exempt URL strings from smiley processing.

N.B. this occurred on dabr.co.uk

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pigsotwing on 28 Jul 2013 at 9:10

Attachments:

[Dabr smiley bug.jpg](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/dabr/issue-379/comment-0/Dabr smiley bug.jpg)

saadqbal / dabr

Smileys in displayed URLs become inages #379