Option to disable emoticons systemwide

There are many use cases that emoticons are not welcome and get it rendered to then press CTRL + Z to revert it to the plain text is not a feasible workaround in most of the cases.

A simple option to disable emoticons systemwide or for a single space is really necessary.

e.g:

We are a law firm and have many instances of clause referrals using ( ! ) which gets converted to the information emoticon "". Asking each of our 3000 users to change their autoformatting settings is not at all practical, neither it is to press CTRL + Z after the emoticon gets rendered.

Another example would be when copying a document's content which contains a lot of ( ! ). Once I save the content in a Confluence page, all signs would be rendered as emoticons and I would need to delete each one, write it again and press CTRL + Z to get it in plain text. That's not feasible.

Code and Noformat macros are not a good workaround either since we'd not have format on the text.