Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Ralph Shumaker wrote:
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?
I had used halving to reduce down a reply all the way to basically
nothing to myself. The bad font continued to be displayed. Looking
at Content-Type, it never changed from UTF-8.
I remembered having seen something about Character Encoding somewhere
in the menu long ago. I tried selecting View => Character Encoding =>
Western (ISO-8859-1) and eureka! The bad font instantly changed to
the other font. But that's only temporary until you view another
email. When you come back, it's back to the default. I don't care to
correct them manually that way anyway. I just want to prevent the
UTF-8 messages from using the insane font.
Well, I'm not sure what I did differently this time. I thought I had
tried all the options before. But it seems to be displaying better
now. Basically all I had to do was to check all three checkboxes in the
dialog Edit => Preferences => Fonts & Encodings => Fonts...
Even though Content-Type still says UTF-8, the font used for display is
the agreeable font, and yet all HTML fonts seem to display correctly.
I'm going to restart tBird to be certain, but it seems the problem is
solved.
Thanks all.
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Ralph
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