On 12/8/2016 1:00 AM, Ralph Fox wrote:
...
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).
Interesting and thanks Ralph. How frustrating too. Oh well.
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