(Plain text was sent in either direction and the App changed it if you set 'Show Smileys'). (Plain text was sent in either direction and the App changed it if you set 'Show Smileys'). The person I was chatting with is also on a Mac using the Messages app - but has yet to update to the Mavericks OS. Plain Text Western (Mac OS Roman) - Plain Text Western (Windows Latin 1) TextWrangler, as mentioned by others, is the best way to make sure line endings are compatible with whatever Windows app you are using, but you might also try saving in TextEdit as Western (DOS Latin 1) or Latin-US (DOS). For Mac users who love plain text. FoldingText is the markdown text editor with productivity features. Unlike other editors, FoldingText does outlining, todo lists, and more.
Use mac messnger for text an android phone. Hi,
In iChat and Messages 7 (Mountain Lion) there was a .plist in the app that listed all the combinations that could be used for each Smiley.
Even here on the Apple Support Community forums you can type colon, dash, close parentheses and not see a Smiley :-) but will do if you leave out the dash.
When I type the colon, dash, close parentheses in Messages I and offered a view of the selected smiley or a X to dismsss and send as plain text.
What the .plist did was to then call the correct pic and display it. (Plain text was sent in either direction and the App changed it if you set 'Show Smileys')
Later versions of iChat and then Messages actually sent the Smiley Pic after pulling it from within the app.
Those Smileys have gone as has the .plist and some other arrangement is supposed to substitute the Emoji ones. Length of a line given two points.
Although there is no 'Show Smileys' option in the View Menu any more there is a Substitutions listed in Edit menu which includes Emoji (I can't work out though if it make any difference).
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