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Originally posted by zach
@CookieRevised: Ok, I only tested it with Bitlbee and the character didn't appear. In WLM without Plus! it did appear though.
just like every other character which has a glyph in the user's current font will show up in Messenger.
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Originally posted by Unrealshade
well thanks CookieRevised 
of course ctrl+k is not a windows shortcut, because ctrl shortcuts are always programm specific, or am i mistaken again?
nope, you're correct. Just like most shortcuts are program-specific.
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Originally posted by Unrealshade
funny that ctrl+k worked for trillian ^^
Some programs do share the same shortcuts. But those shortcuts aren't always for the same purpose.
However, it is indeed possible that Trillian (and maybe some other IM-clients) use it to be compatible with Plus!. Or rather, and that would be more probable, be compatible with mIRC, a well known IRC-chat client, because that is what the Plus!-shortcuts are meant to simulate: the formatting of text how it is done in mIRC.
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Originally posted by Unrealshade
but is there another ascii sign that does not show up (for whatsoever reasons) so i can use it for contacts without plus?
No. All Plus!-shortcuts will produce an ascii character that will show up if your contact doesn't have the Plus! addon or isn't using a client that happens to support IRC-style ascii codes for formatting text.
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Originally posted by Unrealshade
another way to create the :) smiley is to use a sign that looks like : but is not. a friend did this but i don't like this solution very much although it's a pretty cool idea... and of course you can do some smileys like (: but that doesnt work for 
of course ^^ D: hehehehe ^^ and to use just a space : ) but that's not the same as :) of course...
You could also use horizontal smileys (they have a specific name, but I can't remember it), such smileys are often used in Asian countries. eg:
^_^
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