DJA wrote:
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
This is interesting. Before you replied to my email, Content_Type was
not set to UTF-8, and Jean Brefort's name correctly displayed an
accented e. But now, it displays a white question mark in a black diamond.
[snip]
The clue might be with header lines
Content-Type:
or possibly
Content-Transfer-Encoding:
Well, going down through my kplug folder, every message that displays
with the bad font does indeed have UTF-8 in Content-Type.
For Content-Transfer-Encoding, some offending messages say
quoted-printable, others say 7-bit. But this seems to make no
difference. It appears that it is the UTF-8 in the Content-Type that's
doing it.
How can I make UTF-8 display with a more sane font?
My tBird is v:2.0.0.14 (20080501) with all the updates via yum on Fedora 8.
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?
Western (ISO-8859-1) for Outgoing and Incoming Mail, with both
checkboxes *not* checked.
In the upper portion of the dialog:
Fonts for [Western]
Proportional [Serif] Size [16]
Serif [serif]
Sans-serif [sans-serif]
Monospace [monospace] Size [12]
Minimum font size [None]
[ ] Allow messages to use other fonts
Can I over ride the ugly font used to display UTF-8 without messing up
formatted emails, formatted with html or whatnot?
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