As designed Surrounding some smileys with parentheses breaks the smiley

[psTubble27]

rolleyes

See the source for this post.

 

[James]

rolleyes

Are you referring to something like this: (:))?

If so, it's because XenForo recognises "(:" as a smiley.

 

[Mike]

Really, it's just ambiguous. However, it's parsed left to right, so it finds the first smiley (: which sets up the rest of how it parses.

 

[Gene]

Just posting here because I ran into this issue and searched for "emoticon parentheses" and didn't immediately find this thread. This post ought to fix that for others in the future.