empathy: emoticons trigger inside other emoticons

[Ryan Doenges]

The empathy chat window automatically converts emoticons like `:((' to an image for `:(' and a trailing parenthesis. This creates a frankenstein emoticon that is half png and half ASCII.

[Vish (vish)]

Could you add a screenshot of the problem?

[Ryan Doenges (rhdoenges-deactivatedaccount)]

in the screenshot, ``:(('' was typed.

[Brian Curtis (bcurtiswx)]

Thanks for your bug report and helping to make Ubuntu better. Could you please report this upstream to the developers at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME and leave a link here.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

Ryan, what do you expect empathy to do?

[Ryan Doenges (rhdoenges-deactivatedaccount)]

I would expect the emoticon matcher to leave something strange to it like `:((' as text, rather than change its meaning by interpreting half of it.

[Vish (vish)]

Ryan , Which expression does emoticon `:((' refer to?
Not sure what the bug here is about.
Or are you saying that it should omit the trailing parenthesis, since it might be user error?

[Vish (vish)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.
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