Rendering of formatted text in plain text mode doesn't work for numbers or punctuation marks
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(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, enhancement)
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(Reporter: reinfried.o.peter, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:70.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0
Steps to reproduce:
Write an email in plain text mode with
abcd1
Actual results:
abcd1 will not be displayed in bold letters
Expected results:
abcd1 should be displayed in bold letters
Sorry, because of Markdown styling the stars around abcd1 are not displayed in my description
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Comment 2•5 years ago
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Yes, you can use back-quotes: *abcd1*. Sadly this is an ancient issue, those "modifiers" don't work when numbers and special characters are involved.
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Comment 3•5 years ago
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(In reply to Jorg K (GMT+2) from comment #2)
Yes, you can use back-quotes:
*abcd1*. Sadly this is an ancient issue, those "modifiers" don't work when numbers and special characters are involved.*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 950605 ***
...and counting. Yes, they don't work because the original author of the feature doesn't want them to work, based on the false claim (against detailed evidence provided by myself and others) that this would cause loads of false positives and make the whole algorithm fall apart. Strangely, we always err on the safe side as we don't remove the formatting marks (e.g. stars/asterix) even for recognized plaintext formatting ("structs"), so imho nothing seriously sinister could ever happen even IF there were any false positives. For high precision formatting (incl. tables), there's always HTML and attachments... So maybe something wrong with that algorithm? Definitely something wrong somewhere (your guess). Oh, btw, said author also declared in his feature definition that "failure to recognize a valid struct is not (!!!) a bug." So now you know... I rest my case.
Pepe, you may want to use Jörg's advice to edit your description comment and use back-quotes to preserve the stars in your steps, for greater accuracy of the historical record. This bug is a duplicate, so the pertinent discussion is on the other bug.
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