Type c ) (the rest of your text you don't want parsed).īoth you and the recipient you're chatting to should see a c in brackets (the narrow whitespace will be almost invisible) instead of a coffee mug emoticon.

Hold down Alt and type 8 2 0 5 before releasing the Alt key again (this inserts the narrow whitespace character that interrupts the parsing).

Type ( (open brackets, the start of what you don't want parsed).

So if, for example, you're trying to insert copyright text like (c) and want to stop Skype from turning that into a coffee mug, insert the whitespace somewhere in that sequence: ( To trip up Skype's parser in Windows 10 (tested with Skype for Business 2016, in which the old solution of using !! or no longer works), you need to insert a character it can't handle, like a very narrow whitespace character (Unicode character 8205).

But (n) and (y) still catch me out sometimes, and there is now a very long list of words which, if mentioned parenthetically, produce an emoticon, so some way to avoid this would be welcome. ' no longer gives angel and beer, and '401(k)' no longer kisses the person you are talking to. I have found the issue somewhat less aggravating than before, since many short emoticon codes have been removed: starting lists with '(a). Old IM settings on the left, new settings on the right: There no longer even seems to be the workaround of asking the conversation partner to turn off the display of emoticons on their end - the only IM display setting I can see is to turn off web link previews.

Several questions about this behaviour in the Win32 Skype app (most recently version 7.x) have been asked here before, with various solutions including starting messages with, !!, and other suggested solutions no longer work. It can be inconvenient or even unprofessional when Skype inserts emoticons into message text, for example if 'subsection 13(n)' or z = f(y) are given thumbs-down and thumbs-up symbols.

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