ASCII & Other Character Encoding Schemes

Ascii, or the "American Standard Code for Information Interchange" is a type of character encoding. Whilst it has been succeeded by the likes of UTF-8 and the rise of Unicode in recent years, Ascii was the one to define 128 specific characters, 95 of which are printable and visible on any latin-script QWERTY keyboard, whilst some of the rest are holdovers from the humble typewritter (backspace, carriage return = enter key, and so forth)

Whilst it is essentially the thing that lets you see numbers, letters and text symbols on a computer screen or other device, some internet goers have taken to the idea of using Ascii characters as text-based 'emoticons', 'smilies', or 'kaomoji'

So do you like using 'emoticons'? Are you a fan of Ascii art? Do you find it annoying when you're using a keyboard that doesn't support the diacritical marks for your native language? Have you ever used other encoding schemes? Tell all, here!