I've noticed that sometimes the private messages turn specifically ) <-- that character into winky faces when paired with other random text, that has absolutely nothing to do with a winky face.

For instance, writing ":')" will turn the parenthesis into a winky face, and leave the other two characters the way they are; regardless of whether or not there is anything accompanying the face.

ex.



Edit:
Me attempting experimentation,

Heh.

Probably just some sort of weird formatting thing where it's doing the faces out of order before sanitizing the special characters. Since the PM system uses really old formatting code, I'm probably not going to bother fixing something like this and instead just wait until it's revamped.

Thank you though for the heads up!