Apple Mail munges ASCII art

[Joshua Juran]

I used to hate Apple Mail's inability to allow me to display incoming  
messages in a fixed-width font (as needed to view ASCII art) except by  
viewing the raw message (which only works as intended with text  
messages, but at least ASCII art users tend to send text).

That was with 10.4 "Tiger".  Now that I've 'upgraded' to to 10.5  
"Leopard", I don't have this issue.  Instead, I have the issue that  
Apple Mail is unable to display incoming messages in a fixed-width  
font *even if* I view the raw message, which is now rendered in the  
same proportional font used for the default view.  The Fonts panel  
happily lets me select another font -- though nothing happens.

I suppose the lesson here is that choosing how messages display on my  
screen is the prerogative of those who send me HTML email, or Apple in  
the case of text.  Not me.

I guess I can always copy the text and paste it into another  
application that actually lets me choose a display font.  (Even  
SimpleText does that.)

*sigh*

Josh