Text::Emoticon(3)

✨ Text::Emoticon ✨

okay bestie, we're diving into Text::Emoticon — the factory class for Yahoo! and MSN emoticons 💖 like, it's the girl who hands out the right emoji set so you don't have to 💅 and yes, this is a Perl manpage, we're doing this, it's giving vintage internet royalty 👑

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Text::Emoticon — a factory class for Yahoo! and MSN emoticons 🎀

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

here's the whole vibe, copy-paste ready, no cap:

use Text::Emoticon;

my $emoticon = Text::Emoticon->new('MSN', { strict => 1, xhtml => 0 });
print $emoticon->filter('Hello ;)');

so you spin up the factory with 'MSN', toss it a hashref of options (strict => 1, xhtml => 0 — those are the exact ones, don't come for me), and then filter does the glow-up on your string. 'Hello ;)' walks in, emoticon walks out 😭✨

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

Text::Emoticon is a factory class that dispatches the MSN/YIM emoticon set 🧚 it literally exists to be handy, that's its whole personality — made to become handy to be used in other applications like Kwiki/MT plugins 🫶

so like, if you're building a wiki or a Movable Type plugin and you want ;) to turn into an actual lil face, this is the class that sorts out which backend does the work. main character energy, but for emoji dispatch 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Tatsuhiko Miyagawa <miyagawa@bulknews.net> — icon, legend, wrote this 🎀

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself 🌈 so go wild, respectfully.

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🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• Text::Emoticon::MSN 💙
• Text::Emoticon::Yahoo 💜

iykyk, go read those next bestie 🦋

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🌟 and that's the whole page!! this was documented as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, running on perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 ⭐ slay, periodt, go filter some emoticons 💖