1760790 - Strange display of colors in subject line of message with IceWm

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[Frank McCormick]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2022-03-22 08-37-44.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

The current Thunderbird on Fedora 35 displays strange colors on the subject line of certain messages, usually just from the mailing list of newegg.ca.
I don't know whether this is a mailing list problem or a Thunderbird problem.
See the attached screenshot.

This is Thunderbird 91.7.0

Comment 1

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Is that an oversized emoji?

Please open the RAW-view of that message (Menu -> View -> Message Source [Ctrl]+U) and copy and past the RAW subject line.

Then it could be Bug 1390015. However, it should have been fixed already. But it could also be a regression.

Comment 2

[Frank McCormick]

Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:31:37 +0000
From: "Newegg.ca" <[e-mail]>
Subject:
=?utf-8?B?U2F2ZSBFdmVuIE1vcmUgdy8gUHJvbW8gQ29kZSHwn5Kw4oCTIFdEIDJUQiBNeSBQYXNzcG9ydCBQb3J0YWJsZSBTdG9yYWdlIEV4dGVybmFsIEhE?=
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Errors-to: [e-mail]
Message-id: <[e-mail]>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: XyzMailer
Content-type: multipart/alternative;
boundary="Boundary_(ID_JQNcWiGxU5wORpKoqFvuW7)"
X-ORIG-RCPT: [e-mail]
X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=IdHk5Uma c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=6239a589 b=1
cx=a_idp_d a=6nw6DZmgoLwV+mM0E4oqHw==:117 a=6nw6DZmgoLwV+mM0E4oqHw==:17
a=o8Y5sQTvuykA:10 a=5KLPUuaC_9wA:10 a=3g80flMcAAAA:8 a=5I6QXkjyAAAA:8
a=aE0cJvjpAAAA:8 a=Spb_duGdWZvglSFPwXIA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=81uN6k04sr0A:10
a=yEv9X8VWncIA:10 a=O23WzTs1fjcA:10 a=SSmOFEACAAAA:8 a=TDmIeRdV4V9d4cbNMlUA:9
a=CBpf-DNNwcpnnPdh:21 a=_W_S_7VecoQA:10 a=_wlC_JSZLj8A:10
a=Qg8nYeYZ4ppxL9iWHKE-:22 a=y-4rJCg2yiSUOuYm88t7:22

Comment 3

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to Frank McCormick from comment #2)

Subject: =?utf-?B?U2F2ZSBFdmVuIE1vcmUgdy8gUHJvbW8gQ29kZSHwn5Kw4oCTIFdEIDJUQiBNeSBQYXNzcG9ydCBQb3J0YWJsZSBTdG9yYWdlIEV4dGVybmFsIEhE?=

Subject: Save Even More w/ Promo Code!<u+1F4B0><u+2013> WD 2TB My Passport Portable Storage External HD

Yes, there's an emoji where the graphic glitch is: u+1F4B0 - MONEY BAG 💰
https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4b0/browsertest.htm
followed by u+2013 EN-DASH –

But it's not simply enlarged.

(JFTR: I don't see the bug here on Windows)

Comment 4

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Attachment: Bug1760790.eml

Comment 5

[Frank McCormick]

I gather it's a mailing list problem ?? It's only a minor annoyance.

Comment 6

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to Frank McCormick from comment #5)

I gather it's a mailing list problem ?? It's only a minor annoyance.

That would be unusual.
Please download the test mail (attachment 9269104 [details]) and drop it into your mail folder. It's just a simple mail with your subject.
Does the error show up there as well?

Comment 7

[Frank McCormick]

Doesn't really work as Thunderbird is completely configured to do IMAP.

Comment 8

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

Of course it can be done. Have you tried it?
Your Fedora has a GUI, doesn't it?

Comment 9

[Frank McCormick]

Yes sorry. My brain shut off for a moment.

Now it appears that something strange is going on. Depending on my mood I switch between the Mate desktop and a straight window manager IceWm. I am also back and forth between Debian and Fedora. Now it doesn't matter whether I'm running Debian or Fedora, but
under the Mate desktop, the display is fine as you can see in the attached screenshot

Under IceWm the emoji appears strange. Again look at the attached screenshot.

How do you upload images into a reply. I see no option ?

Comment 10

[Alfred Peters [:infofrommozilla]]

(In reply to Frank McCormick from comment #9)

Now it appears that something strange is going on. Depending on my mood I switch between the Mate desktop and a straight window manager IceWm. I am also back and forth between Debian and Fedora. Now it doesn't matter whether I'm running Debian or Fedora, but
under the Mate desktop, the display is fine as you can see in the attached screenshot

Only with your original email or also with attachment 9269104 [details]?

Under IceWm the emoji appears strange. Again look at the attached screenshot.

How do you upload images into a reply. I see no option ?

When you unfold the "Attachments" section, a [Add New File] button should be there.

Comment 11

[Frank McCormick]

Attachment: Screenshot-icewm.png

Comment 12

[Frank McCormick]

Attachment: screenshot-mate.png

Comment 13

[Frank McCormick]

(In reply to Alfred Peters from comment #10)

(In reply to Frank McCormick from comment #9)

Now it appears that something strange is going on. Depending on my mood I switch between the Mate desktop and a straight window manager IceWm. I am also back and forth between Debian and Fedora. Now it doesn't matter whether I'm running Debian or Fedora, but
under the Mate desktop, the display is fine as you can see in the attached screenshot

Only with your original email or also with attachment 9269104 [details]?

Under IceWm the emoji appears strange. Again look at the attached screenshot.

How do you upload images into a reply. I see no option ?

When you unfold the "Attachments" section, a [Add New File] button should be there.
Found it. Sorry.

Comment 14

[Frank McCormick]

Both emails appear properly in Mate.

Both show the glitch in IceWm.

I'll take it up with IceWm's authors on Github.

Thanks

Comment 15

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Frank McCormick from comment #14)

Both show the glitch in IceWm.
I'll take it up with IceWm's authors on Github.

Thanks for the info. Any luck with them.

Comment 16

[Frank McCormick]

Haven't brought it up with them because the mail with the offending subject line got accidentally deleted! And the problem is it hasn't happened again yet. If and when it does I'll file a bug with them.