In <news:[email protected]>, Ray Davison <[email protected]> wrote:
> David E. Ross wrote: > > > They represent characters not supported by the font used to display > > the Subject. Since the Subject uses the same font as used by the > > menu and tool bars, pull-down context menus, and other parts of the > > mail application's display windows, you likely need to install the > > Theme Font & Size Changer extension from to switch to a font that > > contains those characters. The extension can be found at > > <https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/theme-font-size-changer/>. > > This is a clip of the subject line. > "raydav , Take a look at the New FHA" > > There are currently three such messages in one folder. Where you see > spaces there are the subject characters. This line has three in each > space the other two have four. > > And, the "from" is my email address. > > Selecting other fonts so far has no effect. Those are control characters for 'end of text' (U+0003), 'start of heading' (U+0001), and 'start of text' (U+0002). Few fonts support them, and I doubt you'd want to use any of those, but FWIW here's a (not necessarily comprehensive) list: <http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0001/fontsupport.htm>. (I'm not quite sure what it even means for a font to support a control character, except to make the character not display as one of those little boxes. I guess the spammers are using control characters in an attempt to throw off automagic spam detectors which try to parse the headers.) _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
