On Jul 20, 2010, at 10:59 AM, James Therrault wrote:
OTOH, I understand exactly what Dan stated when he uses Lucida as a display font but the actual output when mailed defaults to Courier which is the plain text.
There is no internet wide official "default" plain text font. Many devices default to courier or other monospace font, but there is no official default. All that is sent in plain text is the 7 bit (or 8) ASCII code for the individual letter. The receiving device sets the font or other output formatting.
The receiving device can be set to output the ASCII code as Lucida, Courier, Zapf Chancery, Braille, punched paper tape, 80 column Hollerith cards, a ticker tape machine (yes, someone has kludged one to print out emails sent to it) or to speak each character.
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