Set smiley conversion to disabled by default

[joostdevalk]

I've been setting up a blog for the European Patent Office lately, on ​http://blog.epo.org, and got a rather distressed call just now, because in a post they'd written, the text "8)" had been converted into a smiley. Simple enough to get rid of, by unchecking the default functionality for that on Settings -> Writing.

It did make me think though: this feature should NOT be on by default anymore, WordPress as a platform has gotten past that in my opinion. Agree?

I think we want to keep smilies on by default, but I agree that the one with the 8 is weird to auto-convert and it's the one that usually confuses things (the other strings are not common). How about we take out the one the 8 altogether?

Replying to jane:

How about we take out the one the 8 altogether?

Definitely okay with this.

Tagging to attract new contributors.

removes the '8)' smiley

Looks like the right opportunity to try submitting a patch - hopefully I did it correctly.

Patch looks great.

Do we want to remove the file too? Or leave it around for plugins?

Sidenote: A new icon set for smilies would make sense one day...

I suggest we leave it around for plugins. It's all part of the same smiley set.

On commit, I'm thinking that instead of deleting the line, we should comment it out with a note, that way people know that A) it exists and B) it was deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text.

Replying to dd32:

Patch looks great.

Thank you!

Replying to nacin:

On commit, I'm thinking that instead of deleting the line, we should comment it out with a note, that way people know that A) it exists and B) it was deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text.

Would this be consider an appropriate comment style for this case?:

     ';-)' => 'icon_wink.gif',
     /* 
     *  NOTE: deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text. 
     *  The file exists and is available.
     *
     *  '8)' => 'icon_cool.gif',
     */
     '8O' => 'icon_eek.gif',

Also, I made some note variations as english grammar is not my strongest suit. Let me know if one of the following would do:

a)
Deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text. The file exists and is available.

b)
The following file exists but the smiley has been deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text.

c)
The file exists but the smiley has been deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text.

d)
The following smiley has been deliberately disabled due to potential conflicts with regular text but the file is still available.

In [19613]:

Disable the 8) smiley as it breaks regular text more than all of the others. props sksmatt. fixes #17122.

No need to be pedantic over inline docs, it's all the same. Congrats on your first patch!

Replying to nacin:

No need to be pedantic over inline docs, it's all the same. Congrats on your first patch!

Amazing! this made my day, thanks guys.