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Thunderbird add-on to fix Wingding glyphs in Outlook-generated emails

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Outlook sends emails with a J instead of the smiley :)

The reason is due to the Wingdings font face, which is missing on non-Windows
platforms. This add-on fixes the most common situations.

More details:

http://lifehacker.com/5574668
http://superuser.com/questions/159334

Installation instructions
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Clone the repository locally then run `make`

  $ git clone https://github.com/richq/smileyfixer.git
  $ cd smileyfixer
  $ make

Install the resulting xpi file in Thunderbird 3+ from the Add-ons menu
option.

This add-on is also available from the Mozilla Add-ons site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/smiley-fixer/

License

All code is covered by the Apache version 2.0 license.

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html