The case for Unicode smileys

Classic Smilies
Input	Effect
Yeah, you should unmount it so the other one can be D: instead. :)	Yeah, you should unmount it so the other one can be instead.
As you can see [url=http://example.net/XDeath.png]here[/url], it sucks.	As you can see eath.png">here, it sucks.
Unicode Smilies
Input	Effect
Yeah, you should unmount it so the other one can be D: instead. 😆	Yeah, you should unmount it so the other one can be D: instead.

Most messageboard software comes with a smiley panel in the post editor that you can use to look up and insert classic smilies with. The only change needed is to replace entries like ":D" with "😆". Clearly delimited entries like ":pirate:" () aren't as likely to cause trouble.