315794 - Thunderbird completely lacks support for the Spoiler Character, both in display and compose windows.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 27153

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Rara Avis]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051025 Firefox/1.5

*Please do not list as duplicate of Bug #s 27153 or 11080. It is not!*

According to pertinent RFCs and Drafts (follow URL above), newsreaders (and optionally  mail clients) SHOULD allow for use of the CONTROL + L character (also known as "formfeed" or ASCII 12) to allow the reader(s) optional display of text that might be consider undesirable as part of a posting (or mail).

Thunderbird doesn't allow you to include the character when composing a posting (or mail); furthermore, it FAULTILY displays the text of a message (both mail and news) that includes the character.

Many newsgroups moderators on literature, film, and some in sciences (like math and physics) demand the use of said character. And the RFCs and drafts mention it among the Best Usenet Practices. I cannot use Thuderbird in most of the groups I subscribe to.

Reproducible: Always




Please, go to http://www.newsreaders.com/spoilers/spoilers.html to learn more about the correct handling of the "formfeed" or "spoiler" character.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 11080 is marked fixed, and in fact, it does work -- a message with an embedded ^L will display an empty space in the middle... *if* you have set the option 'Display emoticons as graphics'.  Not ideal, perhaps, but there you 
have it.  If you want to make that work differently, you should open another 
bug (RFE) specifically for that feature.

The other part of this bug... well, that *does* seem to be bug 27153.  Why do you say it isn't?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

No response from reporter, duping.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 27153 ***