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One way would be to just parse chat message and substitute out the emoticon text with enough spaces to hold a graphic. Then just anchor the graphic to the appropriate part of a scrollframe. The tricky part would be knowing how many pixels wide a chunk of text is in a particular font is, so you know where to put the emoticon horizontally. Knowing when to delete the graphic might also be an issue.
If this is the only way it could be done, I think it would be too much of a hack job to be worth doing or running, for that matter.
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