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Typing ASCII smiley faces shows up a big nasty box with a red X in Evolution's email composer

Bug #131602 reported by Alexander Jones on 2007-08-10

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #107985: html automatic smiley drawing not working. Edit Remove

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Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	evolution (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: evolution

See screenshot.

Pressing backspace restores the text that would have been typed before, e.g. ":)".

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Aug 10 17:55:07 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/evolution
Package: evolution 2.11.6.1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: evolution
ProcCwd: /home/alex
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: evolution
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote on 2007-08-10:

#1

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.7 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (43.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (668 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote on 2007-08-10:

#2

Screenshot-Compose Message.png Edit (52.1 KiB, image/png)

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Pedro Villavicencio (pedro) wrote on 2007-08-10:

#3

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I cannot reproduce this, if i enter a :) i get the same in the composer. Lets see if someone else can reproduce this. thanks in advance.

Changed in evolution:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	New → Incomplete

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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote on 2007-08-11:

#4

You need to be editing in HTML mode.

Changed in evolution:
status:	Incomplete → New

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2007-08-11:

#5

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported, but feel free to report any other bugs you find.

Changed in evolution:
status:	New → Invalid

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Mark Garrow (scunizi) wrote on 2007-11-21:

#6

Although this bug has already been reported I can't find referance to it so I leave my notes here. I to have this problem. After asking on #evolution I was informed by kjetilho that this bug has been fixed by mbarnes. Will we be seeing a patch anytime soon?

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