the mysterious J

Ok I don't know if any of you often see a weird looking "J" at the end of sentences in your emails but I do. And I have been trying to figure out what it actually means or if it's the new smiley or something (which would probably mean I am getting old and having difficulty catching up with the new and in things)

This is how it looks like:



And finally I found this entry online and it has TOTALLY amused me XD

What does J mean?

What is a J? A letter in the alphabet, yes, no, yes? Well sometimes it’s a bit more than that, or rather, something different.

Have you ever got emails like this and wondered what the HELL is that J?

I’ve been getting those for ages. And it became really annoying, so I thought let’s just figure it out. The truth, as often, is simpler than you’d expect.

So this is strange. Outlook is kind enough and provides multipart encoding, where the semantics of the J, which, if we run ahead, means the smiley face in Wingdings font, is correct. Yet Thunderbird (I’m not sure how other mailers behave) sees that there’s HTML content and tries to render it. But it’s apparently so weirdly encoded (what’s with the double encoding of = into =3D??? Why why why? — thanks Erki, of course it’s because I missed it’s quoted/printable. Duh. Well, it’s still bad HTML…) that it skips part of it and apparently can’t recognize the font span tag which would tell it to render the J/smiley character in Wingdings, so it just ignores it and so it’s J’s all over galore.

So, next time when I get such e-mail from Outlook, can I just reply “yeah, J right back at you J J J” and hope they’ll also figure it out like I did?

original post: http://www.jaanuskase.com/en/2006/02/what_does_j_mean.html


I am just totally amused by the last comment “yeah, J right back at you J J J”~

HAHAHA

made my day =v=