NAME Text::Emoticon::Unicode - Text::Emoticon filter for Unicode emoticons VERSION This document describes Text::Emoticon::Unicode version 0.02. SYNOPSIS use Text::Emoticon; my $emoticon = Text::Emoticon->new('Unicode'); my $msg = $emoticon->filter('Howdy :)'); # returns 'Howdy ☺' DESCRIPTION This is a Text::Emoticon filter for converting ASCII emoticons to their Unicode emoticon character equivalent. Unlike the other Text::Emoticon filters, this one does not use images from an external site or even use any HTML. Instead it replaces a series of characters like ":-)" with a single character like "☺". Currently only the Unicode 1.1 emoticons "☺" and "☹" are supported, but an option to enable the vast range of Unicode 6.0 emoticons will be added in a future version. An option to use numeric character references for HTML or XML will also be added, but it’s easy to use HTML::Entities or XML::Entities instead. AUTHOR Nick Patch COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE © 2012 Nick Patch This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.