DJA wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> DJA wrote: >>> .. >>>> 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" >> >>> .. >> >>> Is there reason one or more of these settings should be changed? >>> >> >> >> My reading of that checkbox is that it says force incoming messages to >> always be displayed in "my default encoding" regardless of what was >> specified in the message header. >> >> You might try toggling that off & back on while checking the effect on >> some particular message that displays funny. >> >> I have been comfortable leaving that setting unchecked, with my T'bird >> version 2.0.0.14 (20080501). >> >> Regards, >> ..jim > > I might, but I'm not the one experiencing Funky Font Syndrome. (There > are two checkboxes by the way; I assume you are referring to the first.) >
Yeah, I was talking about the one you had checked. On my system, I have neither checked. I don't know whether other tbird users have differing suggestions? Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
