Comments on: Damn J’s in Thunderbird emails (smiley faces)

By: giao diện Việt - giao dien website

giao diện Việt - giao dien website — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 11:57:43 +0000

Wonderful website. Plenty of useful information here. I’m sending it to a few pals ans also sharing in delicious. And naturally, thank you on your sweat!

By: PCSoftwareHardware

PCSoftwareHardware — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 10:06:40 +0000

both solutions don’t work in the newest thunderbird version 7.0.1…

By: iPhone Repair Brisbane

iPhone Repair Brisbane — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:13:51 +0000

I have thunderbird 6.02 and the ‘J’ still doesn’t render as a smiley face. How strange. Aaron

By: Justin

Justin — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:41:42 +0000

Thanks Bojan. I’ll update the post with your info. Cheers, Justin

By: Bojan

Bojan — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:42:28 +0000

This is what worked for me in 3.1.11:

https://github.com/richq/smileyfixer/downloads .

By: tetra

tetra — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 21:00:44 +0000

Tielenaar,
the mails have both a raw ascii and a html version inside it, so that mail clients that doesn’t handle html also will work. Thunderbird can handle html, so it uses that version, but it doesn’t understand what Outlook puts in there

Example, you type “Thank you ”, and Outlook replaces the with the corresponding symbol from the Windings font, that happen to be in the same place as J in a normal text font. This is what is in the HTML (replaced angular brackets with parantheses):

Thank you (span style=3D’font-family:Wingdings’)J(/span)

By: Tielenaar

Tielenaar — Tue, 03 May 2011 08:34:54 +0000

In Thunderbird 3.1.10 this workaround still does not work, nor is it fixed in Thunderbird itself. I don’t really get the problem, because when I look in the source code of the e-mail it shows “:-)”. Why does Thunderbird not just print this? It’s plain 7 bit ascii!

By: nmp

nmp — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:35:50 +0000

To those who are having problems saving files to your C: on Windows 7 or vista:

Method 1: Run the program that you use to save the file as an administrator

1. Right-click the shortcut that starts the program, and then click Run as Administrator to start the program. If the Run as Administrator option is not available, follow these steps:
1. Right-click the shortcut that starts the program, and then click Properties.
2. Click the Shortcut tab, and then click Open File Location.
3. Right-click the executable file for the program, and then click Run as Administrator to start the program.
Note If the program was installed by using an .msi package file, you must locate the executable file for the program to run it as an administrator. For example, a shortcut to a Microsoft Office program does not include the Run as Administrator option.
2. Save the file.

Method 2: Save the file to the Documents folder and then move it to the destination folder

1. Save the file to the Documents folder.
2. Right-click the file that you saved in step 1, and then click Cut.
3. Click Start
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Start button
, click Computer, right-click the destination folder, and then click Paste.
4. Type the administrator password when you are prompted.

Also, when you save the text file, make sure the other .properties files are visible in that folder (this you do this by changing “save as type-text” to All Files.

Having said all of this, the proposed solution in this article to the “J” issue did not work for me as I am using Thunderbird 3.06.

By: Harsha

Harsha — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:28:55 +0000

Worked like a charm! Thank you very much.

By: n

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 23:15:05 +0000

great fix.