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    From Henk de Jong@21:1/5 to Henk de Jong on Wed Mar 17 14:29:02 2021
    On 17-3-2021 14:18, Henk de Jong wrote:

    The emoticons are plain text :) and :(

    Thunderbird is showing two graphics when you have chosen to "Display
    emoticons as graphics" in Options -> General -> Plain Text Messages.

    I meant : ) and : (
    (but without the space)


    --
    With kind regards,
    Henk de Jong

    7 Sisters Restaurant
    https://www.7sistersrestaurant.com

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  • From Henk de Jong@21:1/5 to All on Wed Mar 17 14:18:18 2021
    When people send me an email from a Microsoft email client (for example Microsoft Outlook 16.0) and it includes an emoticon, Thunderbird shows
    it as the capital J or L.

    In the message source I see
    Content-Type: text/plain;
    charset="utf-8"
    Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

    The emoticons are plain text :) and :(



    A web search reveals that the sender has used a Wingdings font character
    to display the emoticon. The capital J and L in a standard font share
    the same locations as the smiley and sad face.
    The same internet search also revealed that this problem was mentioned
    as early as thirteen years ago...

    I have not found a solution to this problem, but maybe my search was not thorough enough.
    Has someone here a solution on the receiving end in Thunderbird?


    --
    With kind regards,
    Henk de Jong

    7 Sisters Restaurant
    https://www.7sistersrestaurant.com

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  • From Steve@21:1/5 to Henk de Jong on Wed Mar 17 11:33:16 2021
    On 2021-03-17 8:18 a.m., Henk de Jong wrote:
    When people send me an email from a Microsoft email client (for example Microsoft Outlook 16.0) and it includes an emoticon, Thunderbird shows it as the capital J or L.

    In the message source I see
        Content-Type: text/plain;
            charset="utf-8"
        Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

    The emoticons are plain text :) and :(



    A web search reveals that the sender has used a Wingdings font character to display the emoticon. The capital J and L in a standard font share the same locations as the smiley and sad face.
    The same internet search also revealed that this problem was mentioned as early as thirteen years ago...

    I have not found a solution to this problem, but maybe my search was not thorough enough.
    Has someone here a solution on the receiving end in Thunderbird?


    Try Smileyfixer: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smileyfixer/

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  • From Henk de Jong@21:1/5 to Steve on Thu Mar 18 17:22:35 2021
    On 17-3-2021 17:33, Steve wrote:
    On 2021-03-17 8:18 a.m., Henk de Jong wrote:
    When people send me an email from a Microsoft email client (for
    example Microsoft Outlook 16.0) and it includes an emoticon,
    Thunderbird shows it as the capital J or L.

    <cut>

    I have not found a solution to this problem, but maybe my search was
    not thorough enough.
    Has someone here a solution on the receiving end in Thunderbird?

    Try Smileyfixer: https://addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smileyfixer/

    Works!
    Thanks for the tip :-)
    --
    With kind regards,
    Henk de Jong

    7 Sisters Restaurant
    https://www.7sistersrestaurant.com

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