330306 - smiley from outlook displayed as "J"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 31538

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Emmanuel Touzery]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060111 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Microsoft Outlook seems to have an interesting "optimisation" on how to encoding smileys of email messages.
In the text/plain part they are ":-)" as they should be.
In the text/html however... they are encoded like that:

<font
size=2 color=navy face=3DWingdings><span lang=EN-US =
style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Wingdings;color:navy'>J</span></font>

that's right, a smiley is "J" in the "wingdings" font...

and when receiving those mails in thunderbird, we only see "J".

I wonder why gecko is not displaying the "J" in the wingdings font as it should?
I can provide screenshots, message sources if that can help.

I realise it's just one of outlook's indiosyncacies and you could close it as WONTFIX.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Duplicate of bug 263984 -> Core bug 31538.

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