You know what bug/feature I would dearly like fixed? When I hover over a from or reply-all address that is rendering as a display name, e.g. "John Smith", I would like for Outlook to show what the raw email address is in the card that comes up, without having to expand it out into the ginormous full contact card.
Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
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Re: Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
#22People call this a bug, I call it an interoperability issue. Microsoft wanted to represent a real smiley in text without resorting to images. There was no standard unicode character for such a smiley so Microsoft chose a font that did support the smiley character. Of course hindsight is 20-20, it's easy to say now they should've gone with a character that wasn't in use yet, but circumstances being what they were, a b…
How about you just leave it alone and let :) render as :) ? Microsoft and Outlook have a long history with lacking interoperability. Outlook Rich Text format. Outlook Rich Text handling of attachments. Lack of read/write CalDav and CardDav support. Outlook support for IMAP is meh.
Re: Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
#236 years of this bug, and now they're fixing.
It took a while for emoji to show up in Unicode, then for Windows to support emoji, and probably some time for Office to settle on an emoji strategy.
Re: Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm called James so when I got a "Thanks J", I thought they had taken it on themselves to give me a new nickname. Perhaps signing off my emails with "Thanks :)" gave them sane impression. Strangely felt better when I realised it was a smiley face.
Me too! Plus everybody calls me "J" or "JJ" because those are my initials and it is universally known that I dislike my name.
That explains a lot of things (my name also begins with J)
Re: Microsoft is fixing the Outlook bug that causes “:)” to revert to “J”
#25People call this a bug, I call it an interoperability issue. Microsoft wanted to represent a real smiley in text without resorting to images. There was no standard unicode character for such a smiley so Microsoft chose a font that did support the smiley character. Of course hindsight is 20-20, it's easy to say now they should've gone with a character that wasn't in use yet, but circumstances being what they were, a b…
It's not really a bug, it's total disregard for people not using your software. Only a monopolist company can afford to behave like that.
And by the way this is especially messed up if you use a screen reader.