Thunderbird - Disappearing Characters

[Ed Greshko]

On 12/09/2011 07:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> On 12/09/2011 12:14 PM, mike cloaked wrote:
>> 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.

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?


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