Emoticons sent with Tik 0.90 client are being received with a backslash

[jgknight]

Subject of the Issue

When smiley emoticons are sent from a Tik client, the ones containing open or close parentheses or brackets are being sent with a backslash, breaking the smiley on the receiving end (Tik clients and AIM Windows clients.)

Deployment Environment

• Retro AIM Server Version: build from dev, 066339d
• Installation Method: built on MacOS
• Client(s) Used: Tik 0.90 and AIM 5.1.3036 on MacOS
• Other Relevant Details:

Steps to Reproduce

1. Sign on to the Tik 0.90 client
2. Either send a message to yourself, or send a message to another user
3. Send a smiley such as :-)
4. Observe that the smiley is received as :-\) instead, which breaks the smiley

Expected Behavior

I would expect there to not be a backslash

Actual Behavior

There is a backslash!

Troubleshooting Data

Here is a screenshot of the bug

From a PCAP it looks like Tik is responsible for adding the backslash and it's not RAS adding it, but I'm wondering if the RAS is supposed to do something with these messages so that the smileys still work on the receiving end such as removing the backslash? Or was this always just broken in the Tik client?