Item1775: SmiliesPlugin confused in colored text

The SmiliesPlugin doesn't always render shortcuts when in colored text or near punctuation.

For example, :-( should be a

It turns out that

%<nop>RED% :-( %<nop>ENDCOLOR%

WILL render in foswiki (but not twiki) .

The difference has to do with the shortcut being adjacent to a macro; however, with WYSIWYG, this is not easy for a user to control.

Other punctuation characters also suppress rendering:

If I write :-( should be a :-(. the period prevents it from rendering.

:-( should be a :-(, if the comma weren't there.

This all kinda makes sense to a programmer, but not to users. Better heuristics are required.

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Confirmed -- MichaelTempest - 24 Jun 2010

Just make sure there are white space chars around smilies.

-- MichaelDaum - 27 Feb 2014

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