How to insert emoticons in LaTeX?

Question

I know it's a long shot, but is there some package or means to insert emoticons into a LaTeX document?

Answer 1

I know at least two partial ways:

First:

$\ddot\smile$

Second:

\usepackage{wasysym}
\smiley
\frownie

Or you can use images (as mentioned in other replies).

Answer 2

What's against a simple {\tt :-)}?

Answer 3

Unicode's "miscellaneous symbols" include 3 simple emoticons: 0x2639-0x263B. You can possibly use 0x2686-0x2689 as well.

For more variation you are going to need to use images and include them somehow.

I am curious as to the circumstances which lead to this question :)

Answer 4

By now there also is the tikzsymbols package which has nice emoticons.

Answer 5

One solution is to use bclogo package. It contains two smileys (happy & sad), plus many other small "logos" like flags and others.