Sometimes when I get email from friends or relatives, I notice that an apparently random "J" would just sort of materialize in the letter. It was in the context of where a smile or similar shorthand sentiment indicating either encouragement or humor would appear. Puzzled especially after receiving a letter from a dear girlfriend today that was just riddled with them, I finally looked it up.
Apparently, when Microsoft users type an email, they can use Wingdings (a font) to put a smiley face in their messages. Anyone else who doesn't have that font gets to see a nice "J", which is what Wingdings translates into a smiley.
Weird, eh? So, if you get an email and it has "J"s all over the place and you can't figure out whether your correspondent is insane or the evil email leprechauns have attacked the message en route to your machine, err on the side of the leprechauns.
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