When you copy-paste from the HTML/XML logs, the shortcuts are not copied, but the image placeholders are copied.
If you want to have the shortcuts you need to convert the HTML/XML logs to text logs.
In HTML/XML an image is defined as a tag with <img></img>. Within that tag you have some attributes like the src tag which defines the image source. One of those other attributes, in the Plus! HTML/XML chat logs, is the
'alt' attribute which contains the original used shortcut.
Unfortunatly there isn't an automatic converter to properly convert Plus! HTML/XML chat logs to text logs including all the 'hidden' information like those
'alt' attributes used in emoticon images.
So, the only thing you can do at this moment is to manually convert them. A very massive big job indeed.
But at least you now know that the shortcuts aren't 'gone' and that it is possible, it simply isn't that easy at the moment.
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