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thunderbird package

Emojis in email headers are shown MUCH too large

Bug #1767415 reported by Andreas Schildbach on 2018-04-27

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #1761844: Very large emojis displayed in subject line and in the email list. Edit Remove

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This bug affects 25 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	thunderbird (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

See attached picture.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: thunderbird 1:52.7.0+build1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-20.21-generic 4.15.17
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-20-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/controlC0: aschildbach 1621 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20180416164209
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Apr 27 17:32:00 2018
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
# interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Thunderbird (default) - {972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-21 (735 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Release amd64 (20160420.1)
IpRoute:
default via 192.168.1.1 dev wlp58s0 proto dhcp metric 600
169.254.0.0/16 dev wlp58s0 scope link metric 1000
192.168.1.0/24 dev wlp58s0 proto kernel scope link src 192.168.1.70 metric 600
MostRecentCrashID: bp-dcf7be60-3e00-439e-a39a-52f0d2160327
PrefSources:
prefs.js
/usr/share/xul-ext/enigmail/defaults/preferences/enigmail.js
/usr/share/xul-ext/enigmail/defaults/preferences/000system.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=52.7.0/20180416164209 (In use)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: True
SourcePackage: thunderbird
SubmittedCrashIDs:
bp-dcf7be60-3e00-439e-a39a-52f0d2160327
bp-47dc2ae5-396d-44a8-a7c0-ecb542160206
bp-c61df29c-72c2-4a55-ac73-a006c2150907
bp-a280a2f0-5957-4f04-b28d-0ebe92150820
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-04-26 (0 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 01/16/2018
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.7.0
dmi.board.name: 07TYC2
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 9
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.7.0:bd01/16/2018:svnDellInc.:pnXPS139350:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn07TYC2:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct9:cvr:
dmi.product.family: NULL
dmi.product.name: XPS 13 9350
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

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Andreas Schildbach (schildbach) wrote on 2018-04-27:

"is live now" message from YouTube, containing a "recording" emoji in the subject Edit (20.3 KiB, image/png)
AlsaInfo.txt Edit (42.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CRDA.txt Edit (2.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
CurrentDmesg.txt Edit (228.4 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Dependencies.txt Edit (5.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Extensions.txt Edit (978 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IpAddr.txt Edit (708 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
IwConfig.txt Edit (469 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Lspci.txt Edit (12.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PciNetwork.txt Edit (550 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Prefs.txt Edit (676 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcCpuinfoMinimal.txt Edit (1.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcEnviron.txt Edit (322 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
PulseList.txt Edit (25.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
RfKill.txt Edit (112 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
Themes.txt Edit (256 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
WifiSyslog.txt Edit (292.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2018-05-02:

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in thunderbird (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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Tom Mercelis (tom-mercelis) wrote on 2018-05-04:

screenshot email list Edit (86.6 KiB, image/png)

This also applies to the list of emails in a folder, this makes scrolling trough my mails a very colorful experience..., but also makes it render subject text over adjacent columns.

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kanschat (kanschat+ubuntu) wrote on 2018-05-04:

Found a workaround here https://askubuntu.com/questions/1030609/18-04-fresh-install-thunderbird-inbox-invaded-by-large-icons/1030634#1030634

Quote: "This fixed it for me: sudo apt-get install fonts-symbola"