How to Disable Emoticons page in CAC needs to be updated as the method is not applicable for Confluence 4.0.x & 4.1 (as tested)

How to Disable Emoticons page needs to be updated as the following section is not applicable for Confluence 4.0.x & 4.1 (as tested):

For Confluence 2.9.x and later:

1. Open up the wiki-renderer-components.xml, located in WEB-INF/lib/confluence-2.x.y.jar/plugins. Please follow the steps as suggested here to edit files in a .jar file.
2. Determine the following line and remove/comment out the content:

   <renderer-component key="emoticon" name="Emoticon Renderer"
   class="com.atlassian.confluence.renderer.plugin.SpringRendererComponentFactory" weight="10000">
       <param name="componentName">emoticonRendererComponent</param>
   </renderer-component>

   Alternatively, manually escape the character with a "backslash","\". For example:

   \(i)

   Code Macro and Noformat Macro is also an option as any emoticons wrapped within the macro will be disabled automatically.

The customization will not take effect in Confluence 4.0.x & 4.1.