[sippeangelo]

My biggest problem with this is when the images auto-replacing your text emotes convey a completely different expression, and you have no control over it.

Skype is the worst offender, where for example the ":3" cat-face gets replaced by an image of a whole cat, without a face at all. If you disable this "feature" in your options, it's only disabled on YOUR end. The receiving client will still convert your text into images, so now you have NO clue at all how the receiving party interprets your expressions.

Telegram does this RIGHT, where the conversion is done BEFORE your message is sent. If you disable it on your end, the receiver will only receive the text you intended.

[wyager]

The worst is if you are trying to do a letter-indexed list of items and B) gets coverted to a guy with sunglasses.

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[lbotos]

For those that might not get the reference: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060523-10/?p=...

[johnward]

Try sending a code snippet in any modern chat

[jaflo]

Telegram is pretty good with that. One ` for inline code, three for blocks of code.

[esnard]

Actually Skype is great with code.: just prefix your message with "!! ", or surround it with triple backticks, and it will treat it as code.

Triple backticks also works in WhatsApp.