X-face

A X-Face is small a image bitmap attached in heading of email or article Usenet.

Their dimension is of 48 × 48 pixels, them Depth of color of 1 bit (black and white binary without nuances of gray).

Visualization

All the customers of transport and readers of news do not support the visualization and the inclusion of the X-Faces in the messages sent. Here some software supporting the X-Faces:

Gravity, free reader of news under Windows;
MesNews, free reader of news and owner under Windows;
Xnews, free reader of news and owner under Windows;
MacSoup, reader of news under MacOS;
Sylpheed, customer of transport and reader of new GTK;
Claws Email, customer of transport based on library GTK+ 2;
KMail, customer of transport of environment KDE, supports the X-Faces since its version 1.8;
KNode, reader of news of environment KDE, supports the X-Faces (visualization and inclusion).

Encoding

The X-Face are placed in the heading of the emails or articles in a field X-Face, and are encodés with displayable characters ASCII (except white space).

To carry out this encoding, all the editors of image bitmap not proposing this format, it is possible to use a coder such as for example compface or WinFace.

External bonds

WinFace, an graphical interface under Windows allowing to post the X-Faces starting from the code, or the reverse
a collection of X-Faces
Image:: XFace: modulate Perl for encoder and to decode the images X-Face.
a converter of X-Faces in line
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