Usage in Telecommunications
The smiley is the printable version of characters 1 and 2 of (black-and-white versions of) codepage 437 (1981) of the first IBM PC and all subsequent PC compatible computers. For modern computers, all versions of Microsoft Windows after Windows 95 can use the smiley as part of Windows Glyph List 4, although some computer fonts miss some characters, and some characters cannot be reproduced by programs not compatible with Unicode. It also appears in Unicode's Basic Multilingual Plane.
| Unicode smiley characters : | ||
| ☺ | U+263A or alt(+)1 | White Smiling Face |
| ☻ | U+263B or alt(+)2 | Black Smiling Face |
| Unicode also contains the "sad" face: | ||
| ☹ | U+2639 | White Frowning Face |
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