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I don't like emoticons. I especially don't like graphical, animated emoticons.
My personal distaste aside, I use Skype as part of my job and find them unprofessional. Worse, we'll occasionally paste code snippets in the chat window, and sometimes bits of the text are converted into an emoticon. (The key combo (0) is especially troublesome.)
How can I disable the animated emoticons in Skype?
ale
Posted 2014-01-15T18:42:11.107
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Use {code}.
For instance {code}<insert your code here>{code} and you'll be emoticon-free!
Mondongo
Posted 2014-01-15T18:42:11.107
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Skype formatting seems to have changed radically in the new Skype included as part of Windows 10 (I'm on Skype 12.7.597.0) and {code} no longer seems to work. I have asked a new question at Do not insert emoticons into sent messages in Skype version 12
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In Windows, Skype v. 6.11.0.102, go to Tools > Options... > IM & SMS > IM appearance and uncheck Show emoticons.
In OSX, Skype v7.1 (655), go to Messaging > Emoticons > "Don't Show"
ale
Posted 2014-01-15T18:42:11.107
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6This disables incoming emoticons but still will not disable outgoing emoticons. In other words, if you type (0) it will display as you intended locally; but any recipients who do not have emoticons disabled will still see a dancing porridge, or whever that is. – tripleee – 2015-10-19T07:18:02.827
@tripleee So in other words: I want to send serious text/code, but the chat partner's settings are silly (turning my serious text/code into emoticons) and I want to handle his silly settings? If so, I would say to my chat partner: "disable that silly emoticons" – Qaswed – 2019-05-13T14:49:16.807
That's laudable, but if you can't guess which character sequences will be replaced, you probably don't notice when you need to. If you want to be defensive, perhaps you have to live with this setting enabled for outgoing messages so you can see when Skype is about to jerk the pencil in your hand, and take corrective action when it happens. – tripleee – 2019-05-13T15:55:10.937
http://superuser.com/questions/280264/send-preformatted-text-in-skype – Ciro Santilli 新疆改造中心法轮功六四事件 – 2016-12-19T11:43:16.337