[PLUG] Odd emotcon rendering in Thunderbird
Robert Miesen
bobby_miesen at yahoo.com
Thu Apr 20 21:19:32 UTC 2006
I see a smilie that thunderbird substitutes in. I don't see any ':' +
')' becoming a large 'J'.
Perhaps it might be related to the version of Thunderbird you are using.
I am using version 1.5.
Richard C. Steffens wrote:
> Has this happened to any other T-bird users?
>
> Someone has been sending me things with a very large J at the end of
> the message. Since I got it from more than one person, I thought it
> might be some current cultural thing that, having lived under a rock
> for too long, I've missed out on. Turns out it's just one of the happy
> face emotcon variants, but for some reason, it renders as a large J on
> both my Linux and Windows versions of T-Bird. Here's the text I received:
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> It is a happy face. If you type a “:” and then a “)” it turns into a
> happy face J
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> When I use a happy face, I usually use :-) or ;-)
>
> I haven't used :) before.
>
> Most of you will see simple text, but T-Bird users: are you seeing a
> large J or a : and a ), or some graphic T-Bird is substituting? I do
> get graphic emotcons from time to time. When I reply I see the text
> that they were based on. But, a J? Weird.
>
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