Emoticons in Messages on Mavericks

I just upgraded from 10.8.x to Mavericks. One thing I noticed in Messages is emoticons are no longer translated to icons. For example, ":-)" stays text, not an icon. I did some poking around and found com.apple.messageshelper.MessageController for "automaticEmojiSubstitutionEnabledLegacy" to swap the emoticons out for Emoji icons in non-iMessage messages. The issue is, it Messages seems to replace the characters with the emoji unicode character, which means it usually shows up as a box for most receivers.
Any one know of a way to make the emoticons render as icons, without changing text, like in the past?

Hi,
It matters little if the connection is always On.
What I was trying to get across was the iMessages account gives off no indication it is On line (your contacts can't tell you are On line) and shows no contact you have is On line until such time you try and send an iMessage.
The Messages Menu > Status reveals this drop down
It is the same as the Drop Down in a Buddy List
Which is the same as the Menu Bar Drop down if you are displaying the Menu Bar Icon for Messages.
As iMessages can send as if it were your iPhone Number or the Registered Apple ID or other linked email I do have a sort of fuzzy logic idea that might explain why the Avatar pic does not show sometimes.
The My Card in my Contacts app shows my iPhone Number and the Apple ID I use for iMessages.
As I have a second iPhone Messages has tries to add that iPhone Number and Apple ID to the Same Send And Recieve spots despite being associated with a different Address Card.
I can see that - possibly - if the iPhone Number (or Apple ID) is not on the Address card then the Messages app may not pick up a pic for the avatar.
Now that you have set a Buddy pic this should now be used irrespective of the Address Card entry in the Contacts.app
Previously in iChat the Smileys were not actual pictures that were sent.
The App recognised the various keystroke combinations in the incoming and outgoing text and then displayed the correct smiley at your end. (if you had ther "Show Smileys" enabled)
In fact if you and your Buddy had the same Add-on Smiley Pack you could extend the range of smileys.
(Faulty smiley packs led to the discovery of the way to reinstall iChat 2)
The current Messages 8.0 versions seems to automatically convert some keystrokes to the previous Smileys.
I am not sure how close these are the the Emoji ones.
However these are now converted before sending and are actual pics that are sent.
Some of the Emoji icon pictures also seem to take up two characters worth of data.
However my suggestion that any given keystroke combo might not match the conversion table as it were still stands.
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