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by david-given 3480 days ago
A while back I found a minor bug in Thunderbird, where astral plane code points were considered by the line wrapping algorithm to have a width of 2 rather than 1. So I filed a bug report.

Oh, boy.

Turns out that trying to include astral plane code points in whichever version of Bugzilla that Mozilla uses causes comments to be silently truncated! Because MySQL.

I filed that one in 2010; it got deduped against a bug originally filed in 2007; it is now 2016, and the bug is RESOLVED FIXED, and Mozilla's bugzilla still has the same problem.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=405011

At least the original Thunderbird bug has been fixed.