737066 - Thunderbird does not display strong plain text tag correctly.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Theme, defect)

Description

[Edoardo Tirtarahardja]

Attachment: The mail with plain text tag viewed.

How to reproduce the faul:
1.  Create a text based email (not HTML).
2.  Incorporate strong plain text tag, *...*, in my email body.

The strong plain text tag should be displayed the text within the body in bold. However what happened is that it is not displayed in bold text.
Btw, in my 'userContent.css', I have:
  /* Remove strong plaintext tag: *bold* */
  .moz-txt-star > .moz-txt-tag {display: none;} 
So the '*' strong tag is not displayed when the mail is viewed.

Comment 1

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Hum I'm not sue I follow. You remove support for Bold and you filea  bug because it ain't bold. What is the issue then ?

Comment 2

[Edoardo Tirtarahardja]

No, the '.moz-txt-star > .moz-txt-tag {display: none;}' line in 'userContent.css' only remove the '*' strong tag surrounding the bolded text. So having that line will cause the following text '*abc*' to be displayed at bold 'abc' instead of bold '*abc*'.

I was just mention that so people don't get confused when seeing my attachment that the '*' strong tag is not displayed. By default Thunderbird will display the surrounding plain text tag in the same face as the tagged text.

I'm pretty sure the bug with bold face occurred at the end of 3.1.x version as I think the earlier version works. And when I migrated to version 9 & 10 and still not fixed, I file this bug.

Comment 3

[Edoardo Tirtarahardja]

I confirm that the issue only occurs in Windows XP. For some reason win Windos 7, the bold face was displayed correctly.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Edoardo, this problem is gone in newer version?

Comment 5

[Edoardo Tirtarahardja]

I don't have Windows XP anymore, so I can't confirm it.

Comment 6

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Edoardo Tirtarahardja from comment #5)
> I don't have Windows XP anymore, so I can't confirm it.

This shouldn't depend on needing XP

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

If this still happens only on XP I doubt we'd do anything about it.