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How to stop smiley in Thunderbird showing up as a J?

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Mar 15, 20267769 views
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Problem

In Thunderbird 3, when I receive a message with a smiley using the "Original HTML" or "Simplified HTML" viewing option, it appears like this: That is . However, if I view the message as "Plain text" I get the smiley The actual message in the "view source" looks like this: That =F3 is an "ó" (I've c…

Error Output

Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
    boundary="_000_7EE28"
MIME-Version: 1.0

--_000_7EE28
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content…

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Fix for: How to stop smiley in Thunderbird showing up as a J?

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Here's my solution. I wrote a Thunderbird Add-on that replaces J, L, è, à, and · with the correct UTF-8 emoticon, arrow or whatever. Before: After: Credit to Isxek for getting me on the right track though!

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