Should :d, :o go with open_mouth?

:o
:d which is :D "D"
open_mouth

:d specifically necessitates the mouth being closed, with the tongue sticking out upwards. So, not that.

sgcdonmai said:
:d specifically necessitates the mouth being closed, with the tongue sticking out upwards. So, not that.

You're confusing :d (:D) with :q. This sort of confusion is one of the reasons I generally hate emoticon tags.

Where textual equivalents exist, I think they should be aliased.

:d can't be used, the lowercasing makes it useless. If you really want to use :D, alias :d to :Ⅾ (u+216E roman numeral five hundred).

Don't we typically *avoid* random unicode in our tags?

I'm not a unicode expert. So I would have no idea how it works.

will the capitalized "D" show up when searching the tag?

Tags are never generated automatically with capital letters. If we used the unicode character "Ⅾ" it would *look* like a capital letter D because that's how the symbol is shaped, but behind the scenes it wouldn't be capitalized.

It could also cause problems for people copying and pasting tags though, and without the alias would be very difficult to input.

*ahem*

Hint for the slower amongst us: the alias means :d will get translated to :Ⅾ. So people will input what they expect (:d), it will do what they expect, *and* it will look as they expect. No-one needs to know it's unicode something-or-other.

I understand exactly how it will work (and have from the start). But it seems kludgy. If we want to do it though, I don't care.

unicogirl said:
I'm not a unicode expert.

But you're unicodegirl! Oh wait...

All kidding aside, I'm not too keen on that crappy looking :Ⅾ smiley alias. Why not just alias :d to grin or something or other that describes it instead of having a stupid smiley as a tag? Smiley tags are not that great anyway.

Because grin is already taken by something else. We'd have to come up with something else that accurately describes :D. Dunno, wide_smile?

The pseudo-D sounds like a bad idea. And word tags are definitely better anyway. We can alias the emoticons to them, of course.

how about wide-open_smile?

The tag itself seems to have been used correctly.
But it does remind me of a tongue more than a mouth.

Jesus, just leave it. There's nothing wrong with emoticon tags. It's eminently clear by looking at the tag list that :d is supposed to be :D but got decapitalized. And searching for :D works just fine. Emoticons have a meaning beyond the facial expression they're supposed to be trying to depict. Actual emoticons are very limited in terms of possibility of variation, and thus images should only be tagged with emoticon tags where a person's expression is particularly reminiscent of a archetypal ":D" or "^_^" or whatever. It would lose all meaning if you were to alias it to a descriptive tag.

As for aliasing :d to :Ⅾ... no.

You're all just afraid of the future (except for 葉月).

The future is shitty looking smileys? I'm afraid now!

I don't have a problem with :d
I just wanted to know if open_mouth should be it's counterpart. Since that is what the charas actions are.