Texting what does j mean

However, if you don't have the Wingdings font installed or your e-mail program or webmail interface does not support formatted text, the smiley face will show up as a "J". Also, if a message has been forwarded several times and one of the users in the forwarding chain could not view the smiley face correctly, it will be transmitted as a "J" to all future recipients.

Therefore, you may occasionally see "J's" in your e-mails, even if you computer and e-mail program supports the Wingdings font. Hopefully, now when you go back and look at your messages with mysterious "J's", they will make sense in the context they appear.

It should also be easier to interpret future occurrences as well. The J is actually supposed to be a smiley face. Otherwise, it will be the letter "J": J This is because the letter J represents a smiley face icon in the Wingdings font. Photo taken by Quinn Dombrowski from Flickr. Emoji use explained! See also How old is Keliann from TikTok? Real name, age and Instagram!

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Active Oldest Votes. What does "J" mean in e-mail messages? The J is actually supposed to be a smiley face. Otherwise, it will be the letter "J": J This is because the letter J represents a smiley face icon in the Wingdings font.

Community Bot 1. Daniel Daniel I use outlook and I can confirm that messages with smileys in them show J in that position in previews, and in quoted text in the replies. I don't know anyone who sends email in RTF, fortunately. The problem here is that what is being transmitted is semantically the letter J, which is being depended on to look visually like a smiley on in one particular misguided font I wasn't aware of this.

Another reason why Unicode is good I really hate when programs IM clients are a particularly bad offender try to convert text smileys to visual smileys. Not only can it cause compatibility problems exactly like this, but the text smileys look better! If I typed : then damnit that's exactly what I want the receiving party to see. Same goes when someone types that to me -- I don't want it converted to an image to presented to me.

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