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My Thunderbird e-mail client has a very wrong habbit. In version 13.0.1 on my Windows 7 there is annoying thing I do not know how to disable. When I press

ALT + <number>

It generates smilies - Is there any way how to disable this generation of smilies? I have some usefull hotkeys using ALT + some numbers and this is crossing my way. Thank you.

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    How odd, I have the same version on Win 7 also but mine doesn't do this. Have you checked through your Add Ons? There might be something extra in there.
    – Mr.X
    Jun 22, 2012 at 4:59
  • I do not have any just quickText addon and virtual identity.
    – Byakugan
    Jun 22, 2012 at 12:00
  • does this happen in wordpad or notepad as well?
    – Jeremy W
    Jun 23, 2012 at 1:57
  • In notepad yes in wordpad no.
    – Byakugan
    Jun 25, 2012 at 1:29

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Try this:

Options > Advanced > Config Editor > search:"emoticons" > Rightclick > Modify

Then add "(off)" or something to the end. That works by stopping Thunderbird from finding the emoticons. Little bit of a Quick and Dirty Hack though.

Note: You can just delete the text, but I think it's better to be able to reverse it.

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Go to menu "Tools - Options", choose "Display", then "Formatting". Uncheck "Display emoticons as graphics". Confirm with "OK".

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    This is just showing emoticons already wrote in text form not solving my problem with ALT button ...
    – Byakugan
    Jun 22, 2012 at 11:59
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    Might not be answering the question body, but it answered the question title. I found this page through Google and it helped me. Thanks David!
    – Luc
    Jul 18, 2017 at 10:45
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    @Byakugan: Your title doesn't accurately describe your question, however.
    – user198350
    Dec 2, 2017 at 20:48
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    This seems now to be at Edit > Preferences > Display > Plain Text Messages
    – vlz
    Oct 18, 2019 at 14:30
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It seems you are referirng to a Windows feature which has nothing to do with Thunderbird.

If you press Alt + numbers on the keypad, Windows inserts the character with that code. (It only works with the dedicated numeric keypad.)

But I came across this question because Thunderbird converts some text smileys to emojis when displaying messages. If a mail contains :-), Thunderbird displays it as a graphic smiley : 🙂.

This can be disabled by the preference mentioned in David's reply, or with the corresponding preference in your prefs.js file:

user_pref("mail.display_glyph", false);
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