Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[mike cloaked]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:14 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloaked at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Ed Greshko <Ed.Greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
>
>> I read this after responding to Mike's response....   I think you are
>> probably on to something with the X server and/or video driver/HW.  It
>> may be helpful to know if you and Mike have similar HW?
>
> I am seeing the same symptoms on different machines with different
> hardware both i386 and x86_64, and some desktops with nvidia graphics,
> also on netbook with onboard graphics - so for me this seems hardware
> independent....

After seeing the previous comment about a dictionary being the
possible culprit for my issue - I removed mine (British English
dictionary) and installed the US English dictionary instead - so far I
have not had the problem recur!  I will continue to test for some days
to be sure - but if that was the problem it will be nice to not have
to put up with it in the future - I can probably (just!) cope with
American English.....

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mike c