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Western
The emoticon in Western style is written most often from left to right. Thus, most commonly, one will see the eyes on the left, followed by the nose and mouth. Typically, a colon is used for the eyes of a face. However, an equal sign, a number 8, and a capital letter B are also used interchangeably.

Eastern emoticons
Eastern emoticons are typically read from top to bottom, with the inclusion of non-Latin characters allowing for additional complexity. Users from East Asia popularized a style of emoticons endemic to their region.

2channel emoticons
The Japanese language is usually encoded using double-byte character codes, which can be reproduced as ASCII art.

Unicode characters
Some emoticons are included in the Unicode standard, three in the Miscellaneous Symbols block, and over sixty in the Emoticons block.