Extraneous '?' added
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(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
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(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: jw.cross, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/83.0.4103.116 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
When I Forward or reply to e-mails I have received.
Actual results:
When I go to edit the orignal message, it now has one or more extraneous question marks in unexpected places '?'
Expected results:
No extraneous '?' should be added.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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If the font used in your mail composer does not have glyphs for those characters, then these characters are shown as question marks. I do not see a bug in Thunderbird here but instead in the font that you're using in the mail composer.
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Comment 2•4 years ago
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The font that I am using in the mail composer is "variable width". That font does not show up in any other program that allows selection of fonts. Previously I have uninstalled and re-installed Thunderbird without any effect on the extraneous '??".
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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As that it is not the name of a font, it means that Thunderbird picks up whatever your operating system has set as the default font for displaying characters in variable width.
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Comment 4•4 years ago
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(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #3)
As that it is not the name of a font, it means that Thunderbird picks up whatever your operating system has set as the default font for displaying characters in variable width.
None of my other software displays extraneous ? It only appears using Thunderbird replies and forward.
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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What's the exact letter(s) (in Unicode) supposed to be displayed instead of a question mark? Can you take a look into the actual source of the email?
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #5)
What's the exact letter(s) (in Unicode) supposed to be displayed instead of a question mark? Can you take a look into the actual source of the email?
The letter that is supposed to be displayed is a space " ". According to a Google search that corresponds to U+0020. I have no idea how to "look into the actual source". I'm not a computer geek, just reporting a problem with Thunderbird.
If you will tell me the steps in detail, I would be glad to do the checking you ask. Or, iff I saved the e-mail as an *.eml file and sent it to you, could you check it as you propose? Give me your e-mail address and I will send the *.eml file to you.
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Comment 7•4 years ago
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(In reply to John Cross from comment #6)
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #5)
What's the exact letter(s) (in Unicode) supposed to be displayed instead of a question mark? Can you take a look into the actual source of the email?
The letter that is supposed to be displayed is a space " ". According to a Google search that corresponds to U+0020. I have no idea how to "look into the actual source". I'm not a computer geek, just reporting a problem with Thunderbird.
If you will tell me the steps in detail, I would be glad to do the checking you ask. Or, iff I saved the e-mail as an *.eml file and sent it to you, could you check it as you propose? Give me your e-mail address and I will send the *.eml file to you.
I have attached a requested source as a *.eml file to the original bug report. The file is named example.eml
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Comment 9•4 years ago
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Comment on attachment 9161388 [details]
example.eml
I tried to attach an eml file to the my report, but the effort failed to work.
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Comment 10•4 years ago
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(In reply to John Cross from comment #9)
Comment on attachment 9161388 [details]
example.emlI tried to attach an eml file to the my report, but the effort failed to work.
It looks like it did get attached anyway. Look for example.eml
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Comment 11•4 years ago
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(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #3)
As that it is not the name of a font, it means that Thunderbird picks up whatever your operating system has set as the default font for displaying characters in variable width.
(In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #5)
What's the exact letter(s) (in Unicode) supposed to be displayed instead of a question mark? Can you take a look into the actual source of the email?
Look at the file example.eml to see the actual source.
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Comment 12•4 years ago
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Possible dupe of bug 1435903?
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Comment 13•4 years ago
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(In reply to WaltS48 [:walts48] from comment #12)
Possible dupe of bug 1435903?
per bug 1435903,
The problem looks very similar. It only happens for 2 spaces in a row.
- My servers are at aol.com, not Yahoo.
- Also as suggested in the workarounds for bug 1435903, I tried setting config editor to "mail.strictly_mime" , but it was already set to "true".
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Comment 15•4 years ago
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Please ignore comment 14, which has a typo. Here is the exact situation:
I did a test e-mail and proved to myself that the extraneous ? are added when I write an e-mail with 2 consecutive spaces and it gets sent back to me.
I sent this to my partner on a different computer but also running Thunderbird: "test test test test "
What she saw on her screen was the same as I sent, but when she replied the message back to me this is what Thunderbird
displayed: "test test?? test?????? test "
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Comment 16•4 years ago
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Reporter, does this happen for you when using version 78? You can update by going to help > about.
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Updated•4 years ago
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