263984 - Smiley ":-)" displayed as "J" in HTML mail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31538

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Lucian Fratila]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: TB 0.8 (20040913)

The ":-)" smileys in HTML mails are displayed in the TB message view/compose
windows as the "J" character.  This doesn't happen with plain text messages.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I can't reproduce this symptom in TB 0.8.  Please save a message that exhibits 
the problem as a .EML file and attach it to this bug, using the Create New 
Attachment link above.

Comment 2

[Lucian Fratila]

Attachment: Screenshot

Screenshot of "J" smiley

Comment 3

[Lucian Fratila]

Actually, to be more specific, this is something induced by the format of MS
Outlook HTML emails.  In the plain text part of the email, they leave the
smileys as they are, while in the HTML part they replace it with a Wingdings
character:

--text--
Nice work and thanks for the help along the way :-)

--HTML--
<p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DArial><span
style=3D'font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Nice work and thanks for the help along
the way </span></font><font size=3D2 color=3Dnavy face=3DWingdings><span
style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font></p>

But still, I'd assume this should be displayed properly, as the Wingdings "J"
character, instead of Arial "J" (or whatever that is).

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Wingding and similar fonts are not supported in Mozilla, and per the duplicate 
and these other bugs, it seems unlikely they're going to be:
bug 193404, bug 232819, bug 236854

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 31538 ***