James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
As I go from one (plain text) message to the next, Thunderbird
sometimes displays one message (or a string of them) with a nice
font. Others are displayed in a freakish font that is barely
readable. Increasing the font size helps the bad one from about 50%
ease of readability to about 90%. The other one just becomes more
pleasant, but a have to page down more.
[snip]
Going back and forth between some of the emails, and noticing that all
emails seemingly were consistently shown with either the good font or
the bad one, I decided to investigate further.
[snap]
It seems that it originates with only emails from a few individuals:
jim
DJA
Brad Beyenhof
David De Lucca
Jean Br�fort
Louis Luangkesorn
philip
Phil Karn
Emails from these individuals, some show the bad font, some do not.
Emails from other individuals (including myself) which display the bad
font are always quoting emails from these fellows that show the bad
font. But not always. Sometimes, even though others quote from emails
with the bad font, their replies go back to showing the good font.
Some quoting keeps the bad font surviving several generations.
[snipe]
Probably half of DJA's message display with the bad font (at least of
the ones in my Trash folder -- a decent number of messages from the
list, I keep, perhaps 5%).
[snoop]
I guess now I just need to see if I can find the common element. (I had
probably ought to turn off automatic deletion of old messages in the
Trash folder until I finish my forensics. :) )
The clue might be with header lines
Content-Type:
or possibly
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
Or is could be with your own thunderbird? What version are you using,
and what are the settings on the "Preferences > Display > Fonts and
Encodings" dialog?
For my case:
Thunderbird: version 1.5.0.12 (20070530) on Fedora Core 5.
Unicode (UTF-8) for both Outgoing and Incoming.
[X] "Apply the default character encoding to all incoming messages"
[ ] "Use the default character encoding in replies"
I wouldn't mind looking at a few examples. I would think a good way to
send them might be to first save them (File > Save as .. xxx.eml), then
package them in a tarball or zip and send them directly to me (or post
in pastebin.com or pastebin.ca)
Regards,
..jim
Is there reason one or more of these settings should be changed?
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~DJA.
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