When I am 'talking' to someone and use a smiley face to ilastrate something, it shows up like ( F ) for flower, but goes to the other person as a rose, and does this with all the icons. We an icon is sent in reply, it also comes in as a letter (F) ? ? ? 

Apparentl;y one of he last updates has eliminated the icons in live messenger, that used to appear

at the top of the message pane, indicating that the other computer was capable of video chat, or voice chat.

What happendd to those icons?

Charles B.

Apparentl;y one of he last updates has eliminated the icons in live messenger, that used to appear

at the top of the message pane, indicating that the other computer was capable of video chat, or voice chat.

What happendd to those icons?

Charles B.