Yahoo!
Emoticon Table Info
1. The Java
Web Chat Applet only supports the emoticons in the top 16 yellow boxes.
2. The Yahoo! Messenger
application supports ALL the emoticons listed above.
3. The bottom 10 emoticons in the brown boxes are hidden
emoticons, they do not appear in Messenger's dropdown
emoticon picker box. They will work if you enter
the key sequences manually in the chat / PM window.
Yahoo!
Messenger Frequently Asked Questions
Q. I've seen naughty
/ funny emoticons on a friends computer. How do I download and install
these on mine?
A. I've went into detail on changing the emoticons
down the page a bit. Click HERE
to go down there now!
Q. I was in a chat room and seen other emoticons
like wine glasses, bicycles, playing cards, houses
etc. How is this done?
A. These are not actually emoticons - they are
characters from picture fonts called Webdings and Wingdings.
Change your
font in the chat / PM window to one of these and press
a few keys and you'll see them. As with normal fonts you can
change the size and color of the characters. There are
a good selection of picture characters in these fonts so try every
key on your keyboard, including lower and uppercase
letters.
Q. I know of the Yahoo sounds like <snd=yahoo>
and <snd=pow>. Are there any more sounds in
Messenger I can use?
A. I've listed all the Yahoo sounds down the page a
bit. Click HERE to go there now.
Q. I have Yahoo! Messenger installed but not all of
the emoticons above seem to work. Why is this?
A. You need to download the latest version of
Messenger HERE. The
latest is version 5 (5,0,0,1066).
Q. How do I find out what version of Yahoo!
Messenger I have installed?
A. Go to Messenger's HELP menu and click on 'About
Yahoo! Messenger..'
Q. I can't get the Monkey
emoticon to work and I have the latest Messenger installed! What's wrong?
A. The monkey uses the bar character '|'
for it's mouth. You will find it on the backslash key '\'
beside the 'Z' key.
On some keyboards it looks like this '¦'
but do try both the solid and split bar characters if you're having trouble.
Take note that this is NOT a '1',
'I' or lowercase 'L'
character! If you're really stuck copy and paste this --> :(|)
Q. The American flag
and the Pumpkin emoticons only animate on the first
line their used on in a PM window. Why?
A. I don't really know! It seems to be a bug in
Messenger that prevents animations being used more than once.
Q. Is there any way I can get Messenger to display
ALL the emoticons in it's drop-down emoticon picker box?
A. Unfortunately not. This is hard-wired into
messenger and cannot be edited to show the hidden emoticons.
Q. What about the Ghost
Emoticon? It was shown here a while back! Did it ever exist? What were
the keys for it?
A. Aa-ha, the infamous ghost emoticon! It did exist
in an earlier Beta version of messenger but only as a graphic.
There were no key sequences assigned to it so it
could never have been displayed in a chat / PM window.
Q. Will there be any new emoticons added to
Messenger in later versions?
A. There could be new emoticons in later versions
of Messenger. I will update the list if there are any new emoticons.
Q. If I use an emoticon like :))
with the Java Applet at the start of the line it comes out as ))
. Why is this?
A. The Java Applet uses the '
: ' character for it's Emotions feature and gets confused. Type a space,
then :))
Q. Are there any secret emoticons or other stuff in
the Java Chat Applet?
A. There are some features you may not know about.
Type /help in the main chat window for info about
them.
Q. Will all these emoticon keys sequences work in AOL
/ MSN / Excite / other
chat programs?
A. Not all of them. Common emoticon key sequences
universal to chat programs are basic ones like :-) :-( ;-)
Q. I'm using Cheetachat with
Yahoo's servers. Can I use the emoticons with it?
A. You can send them with Cheetachat but only the
basic ones will be displayed on your screen as a graphic.