Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 4:24 AM, Ed Greshko<Ed.Greshko at greshko.com>  wrote:
>> On 12/09/2011 12:16 PM, Craig White wrote:
>>>> But, I do hope that all this doesn't result in a tangent to the original
>>>>> question.
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>
> Although I use Thunderbird (8 and 9) I don't use Chinese chars - but I
> do have a rendering problem that is quite frustrating and I hope this
> is not hijacking your thread -

I think your problem is a different problem ;)

> When composing with html formatting - there are many times in the
> compose window that a line will blank out with often some red uneven
> lines along it - moving the cursor back up and removing a character
> and retyping it will often fix the rendering and everything is fine
> again - this has been happening for quite a long time with TB 8 and
> also 9 but I don't know if this is being worked on for a fix - anyone
> else seeing this or am I alone?
You are not alone ... I am experiencing this as well and can't deny to 
find it very annoying.

I am guessing the cause is a malfunction in TB's spellchecker, may-be in 
combination with a bug in the X11 server, but I am not sure about it.

Ralf