Monthly Archives: January 2009

Damn J’s in Thunderbird emails (smiley faces)

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Mozilla Thunderbird 2

This has been annoying me for ages, smiley faces for Microsoft Outlook showing up as J’s in my Thunderbird emails. So here’s the fix:

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\Mozilla Thunderbird\res\ and create a ‘fonts’ folder.
  2. Create a file named fontEncoding.properties. You can right click in the fonts folder, then click create new ‘Text document’, then rename it.
  3. Open the fontEncoding.properties file with your favourite text editor.
  4. Add the following, save, close, then restart Mozilla Thunderbird:

# Symbol font
encoding.wingdings.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings2.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.wingdings3.ttf = windows-1252
encoding.webdings.ttf = windows-1252

Big thanks go to http://blog.tcg.com/tcg/2008/03/j-instead-of-sm.html

Mozilla Thunderbird 3

Try this: https://github.com/richq/smileyfixer/downloads
Thanks to Bojan for posting the link. 

Mozilla Thunderbird >3

This problem has been fixed now. Upgrade Thunderbird if you are still having issues.

 

Internet Explorer 8 – Best Practice for Multiple IE’s.

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I have found the best way to deal with multiple Internet Explorer testing for web development is to utilize Microsoft’s Virtual PC 2007 and their ‘developer licensed’ virtual machines with IE pre-installed. Pre-packaged Windows Operating systems with Internet Explorer are available here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en, though I will forewarn you that you will need to re-download them at a later date as they do expire.

Apparently, Windows 98 can now be installed with a generic license (free) so Internet Explorer 6 can be safely installed onto a Win 98 VM. Being Win 98, it doesn’t hog many resources making it a great solution for IE6 testing.

Happy testing.