A simple fix for the “smiley J”

Does this look familiar?

Have a great weekend J

Chances are if you use a PC, you’ve sent and received emails to someone from Outlook and each emoticon smiles (AKA a “smiley”) has come through as a lonely, solitary capital letter J?

Well Chris Pirillo has a simple fix.

He instructs how to modify Word/Outlook’s autocorrect database to use the built-in Unicode version of the smiley as a substitute for a key combination like “:)” It’s more or less the same as Word’s wingding version of the smiley, but a bit smaller.

The added benefit is that because it’s unicode it will be cross-platform (Unix, Mac, BlackBerry and others).

So simple, it’s genius.