Thanks for the response. Good idea on the multiple images, I’ll give that a go.
When using the / character, there are no issues on the smileys admin panel at all. It displays fine and it saves fine also. The problem occurs in the actual forum post. For example if I use the :/ characters for confused, then what happens in the post is as shown in the attached image. Note it doesn’t affect just the smiley with the character, but all smileys in every post.
Obviously I can use another character but just thought I’d bring it to your attention anyway 🙂