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Smiley Face into symbols on sent Email

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1: After writing an Email from address book to self, in paragraph with no space after word and three smiley face. 2: then sending, Sent folder Email has symbols for smiley face. 3: usually if not then forward email to self. 4: Email in Inbox folder will have symbols instead of three smiley face. NOTE: if one space besides one smiley face it might be OK to unread folder but I had problems with that too. So try different combinations. Disabling add-ons doesn't help ! I have photos but did not send. Wrong format, so send Email to me and I will respond.

1: After writing an Email from address book to self, in paragraph with no space after word and three smiley face. 2: then sending, Sent folder Email has symbols for smiley face. 3: usually if not then forward email to self. 4: Email in Inbox folder will have symbols instead of three smiley face. NOTE: if one space besides one smiley face it might be OK to unread folder but I had problems with that too. So try different combinations. Disabling add-ons doesn't help ! I have photos but did not send. Wrong format, so send Email to me and I will respond.

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Symbols like :) ;) :0?

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Please check both image files. Is this a general fix or a problem of Win 7 for a few.

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On the toolbar then  Add-ons


Do you have an add-on that is no longer enabled that used to offer those smilies

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Hello Matt, Everything is stock. There are no add-ons and never was. Lightning is not one anymore ? Smiley's were taken after pushing the Write button from the address book.

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Lightning is one, it is just distributed with Thunderbird.

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I feel you have had one of these add-ons installed. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emoji-menu/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/emojiaddin/?src=search https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smilieinserter-plus/?src=search

Thunderbird support for smilies is limited. When you add a emoticon using the "insert a smiley face" list box its actually stored as smiley face (text) characters in the message. Thunderbird displays any smiley face characters as a graphics image while other email clients display the smiley face characters as is. This is a built-in feature enabled by the mail.display_glyph setting and why what you see and other users see may differ. However, if you embed a .GIF file using one of the add-ons everybody sees a graphics image.

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You might be right but I don't know how they got installed. I didn't. Maybe it's pre-installed in the installer. First was 45.4 US

 Application Basics
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   User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0
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             (Local drive)
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   Enabled Plugins: about:plugins
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 Mail and News Accounts
   account1:
     INCOMING: account1, , (imap) mailer2.acanac.net:993, SSL, passwordCleartext
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     dom.apps.reset-permissions: true
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     Vendor ID: 0x1002
     Device ID: 0x7280
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     Adapter Drivers: atiumd64 atiumdag atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
     Driver Version: 8.593.100.0
     Driver Date: 2-10-2010
     Direct2D Enabled: Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating your graphics driver to version 9.6 or newer.
     DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.2.9200.17568)
     ClearType Parameters: Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: B ClearType Level: 50 Enhanced Contrast: 200
     WebGL Renderer: Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating your graphics driver to version 9.6 or newer.
     GPU Accelerated Windows: 0. Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating your graphics driver to version 9.6 or newer.
     AzureCanvasBackend: skia
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     AzureFallbackCanvasBackend: cairo
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 JavaScript
 Incremental GC: 1
 Accessibility
   Activated: 0
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I tried again. Went well to sent folder and inbox but a disaster after forwarding. Problems on two different computer, only similarities is Win7, one is 32 bit and other is 64 bit.

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I believe your saying that Emoji 1.3 is a solution to my problem because it's a .GIF file and I will as others always see graphics and less likelihood of incompatibility but still something needs fixing in Thunderbird for embedded style.

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I notice that there is a space before the last smillie and that one works as expected.

Just as a test.... Can you repeat the exact same, but this time put a space before each smilie. Please report back on results.

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Same problems here. One or two space between smiley's. I wonder if vertical view layout might change things or it's not important right now.