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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by sharkbot on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:48AM (#8037110)
Raymond also answered that question on his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2006/05/23/60474...

WingDings mapped the 'J' character to smiley face; when the email goes to a client without that font installed, it just displays the original character in the default font.

Old New Thing is an awesome blog! J

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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by smackfu on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @02:32PM (#8038160)
The latest Unicode updates should fix this. All those glyphs are now mapped to Unicode points instead of ASCII, so if someone has an updated Wingdings font, it won't be a 'J' anymore.

(It will be a box with a question mark, probably.)

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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by andybalholm on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @07:43PM (#8039815)
If the sender has an ASCII Wingdings, and the receiver has a Unicode Wingdings, the receiver gets a J (at least if the receiver is using Apple Mail).
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Re:Why does Outlook map Ctrl+F to Forward instead of Find? by batiudrami on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @11:30PM (#8040419)
That makes so much sense! The people I correspond with at work now seem much less professional.
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