We can, but we're only allowed one - and

it is the happy smile - you have to be happy here, of course: ☺ <font size=10>font color="green">☺<font size=3><font color="black"> There's also a black happy face, but I forget the control code, and I can't find it now (it's #2 in the ascii chart). There're a few more here, but not really emoticons: ^D ♦ ^E ♣ ^F ♠ ^T ¶ ^R ↕ ^O ☼ ^N ♫ ^P ► ^Q ◄ ^U § ^V ▬ ^W ↨ ^X ↑ ^Y ↓ ♥ There are more, like this: 9774 ☮ a Peace sign Also, from ARIAL UNICODE MS and MS MINCHO - you can (using Windows) start charmap.exe - load the arial font, and see some more. The ASCII drawing characters are available, too. Actually, check out wikipedia - unicode (if I remember) and you can get a bunch more (you have to key them in in the numerical keyboard pressing a control key, if I remember).