Editing ASCII art (section)

===Emoticons===
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The simplest forms of ASCII art are combinations of two or three characters for expressing emotion in text. They are commonly referred to as '[[emoticon]]', 'smilie', or '[[smiley]]'. There is another type of one-line ASCII art that does not require the mental rotation of pictures, which is widely known in Japan as [[kaomoji]] (literally "face characters".)

More complex examples use several lines of text to draw large symbols or more complex figures. [[List of emoticons|Hundreds of different text smileys]] have developed over time,<ref name="smileys2">{{cite web| last        = textfiles| title= Collection of ASCII Smileys| date= 2008| url = http://artscene.textfiles.com/asciiart/smileys.txt| access-date = 5 March 2008| archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20080310030328/http://artscene.textfiles.com/asciiart/smileys.txt| archive-date = 10 March 2008| url-status= live}}</ref> but only a few are generally accepted, used and understood.