On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 11:56:23 -0800, Ant wrote:
Subject: "J" instead of Outlook's happy face?

Hello.

Is there something I need to show these emoticons (not emojis) correctly in SeaMonkey v2.40's e-mail client?

Thank you in advance. :) [old school 1 line ASCII arts FTW :P]

It is not an ASCII emoticon like ":)" is.  It is a single character in the Wingdings font.

It appears the sender is trying to send you this character in the Wingdings font (character U+F04A)
J But you are seeing this character instead (character U+004A)

There is a discussion of this issue at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/905813

Perhaps there is a Thunderbird add-on for this, as Richmond has replied.  But the closest I could find was this Firefox add-on:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-page-fixer/

Details
The sender is using HTML to set the font to Wingdings for this character..
In the Wingdings font, this character has the Unicode value U+F04A in the Private Use Area.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/wingdings/nonunicode.htm
If the sender had sent the Unicode value U+F04A in the Wingdings font, you would see the smilie.  (That is what I did above.)
But when a symbol font is involved, Outlook sends an ANSI value instead - in this case the character J (0x4A).

-- 
Kind regards
Ralph
🦊

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