525719 - Outlook 11 break my emoticon on reply

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

Attachment: testcase

When I receive a reply of my original email with an emoticon as ;-) reply of my friend that use Microsoft Outlook 11, show my emoticon "broken" (both emoticon icon and chars ;-) ) as is displayed in attached testcase.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

I'm not sure this is our problem. issue reproduces with view body as html. But display as plaintext and I don't see the ;-)

Message body contains 

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt;"><font size="3"
 color="black" face="Lucida Sans Unicode"><span
 style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Lucida Sans Unicode&quot;;"><span
 class="moz-smiley-s3">;-) </span><br>
<br>

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Smileys are done with a lot of CSS trickery. If you enter one in TB, you get:
<span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span>;-)</span>)</span>

With CSS:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/f593d2d106c15ad9682a35eaa1a8679e7127acd6/mail/themes/windows/mail/smileys.css#51
the content of the inner <span> is hidden and an image is inserted, so if you change
<span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span>;-)</span>)</span>
to
<span class="moz-smiley-s3"><span>Wayne</span>)</span>
you still see the wink image. At the receiving end, the ;-) (or Wayne) is displayed.

In the case of the reply coming from Outlook, we have (simplified):
<span class="moz-smiley-s3">;-)</span>

So Outlook removed the inner span so the hiding trick doesn't work any more and you get the image and the ;-)

I don't think we can improve this and should make this WONTFIX, Richard?

Comment 3

[Richard Marti (:Paenglab)]

Yes, this is how TB implemented it and when Outlook changes it, we can't fix it.

I think the only way to improve or fix it would be to switch to Unicode smileys.