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Tested on NetBeans IDE Dev 200603011900 and Mustang b74 choose the emoticon for ";-)", and ";-(" is shown in the text area instead.
Ouch ;-) Fixed in collab/chat/src/org/netbeans/modules/collab/channel/chat/ChatComponent.java,v1.11 Dev AU: Collab/Chat,v1.3