title: What is the Microsoft Office smiley face character really?
body: <p>Windows auto corrects a <code>:)</code> (smiley face emoticon) into the Wingdings symbol for capital J when using Outlook, Word, and other Microsoft Office programs. This can be seen when opening an email on a phone for example, a smiley included in the subject turns into the emoticon for a smiley (I suspect it is a UTF-8 Smiley). But in the email's body, the smiley just shows up as a capital J.</p>
  
  <p>I can't seem to copy/paste this smiley out of Microsoft Office either, which is so strange. Copying and pasting it into Notepad, or a web browser gives me . Even if the character is just the Wingdings capital J. This is so weird because if you choose any other weird font and type something, it can easily be pasted into other programs. Shouldn't a capital J character be copy/pasted regardless of the font?</p>
  
  <p>So what is the Windows Smiley character really? Why does it show up as so many different symbols depending on the program?</p>