Tech Q for the emoticons/smilies

[Wolfracer]

how come every x amount of characters a space is put in to the string of characters?
This accounts for why some people's smilies don't work, or don't work when quoted, but my Q is WHY????

[Albannach]

how come every x amount of characters a space is put in to the string of characters?
This accounts for why some people's smilies don't work, or don't work when quoted, but my Q is WHY????

Just because...

[gary-r]

just because why

[yoshie]

[Wolfracer]

For some reason this one works...