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Try another class. Add this code to a GUI container:


// JEditorPane testing
JEditorPane jep = new JEditorPane();
jep.setContentType("text/html");
...

Are you defining a hyperlink as text of a URL? Begins with http: and goes to the end of the word.
As for emoticons, are they some special kind of markup known and used by the displayer of the text...

Can you show an example of a hyperlink without html tags?
Or show the text you would be trying to display and what part of it would be a hyperlink that you want to detect.