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An email now shows wingdings rather than text. What did I do?

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I had a normal email. Detached a file from it. Don't think I hit any random keys, but now it just shows wingdings. What did I do? Attachment fine - an Excel file. How do I get back to the normal text?

All my other emails are fine, so I think I inadvertently did something in this one....

I had a normal email. Detached a file from it. Don't think I hit any random keys, but now it just shows wingdings. What did I do? Attachment fine - an Excel file. How do I get back to the normal text? All my other emails are fine, so I think I inadvertently did something in this one....
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This is a bug in TB 52.9:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473893

Until a fix is issued, you can revert to TB 52.8:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/52.8.0/win32/

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This is a bug in TB 52.9:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473893

Until a fix is issued, you can revert to TB 52.8:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/thunderbird/releases/52.8.0/win32/