Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-10-09 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Last night, I wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/09/2012 07:45, Richard Owlett told the world: The only glitch I forsee is related to when I was trying to keep two machines I sync. I had a disk crash requireng a new drive. Although I was making backups of profiles, I've emails

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-12 Thread Daniel
Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: Would I be correct to think that if I change the Font for: to something else, I might change the group of characters that might be displayed, whilst if I changed the serif, I would be changing the shape of the characters displayed?? I cannot tell from your

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-12 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: Tom S. wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. [snip] The upgrade was generally smooth. I have a problem with some emails and some newsgroup posts not appearing in desired font size. As a member of the tri-focal generation,

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-10 Thread Daniel
Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: Unicode, etc, are Other Fonts, aren't they?? No. Unicode is not a font, it's an encoding. And for each encoding you can select which fonts to use. O.K., so are you suggesting I could use Times New Roman as a Unicode font or

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-09 Thread Daniel
Jens Hatlak wrote: Philip Chee wrote: We probably need to do what Thunderbird did in Bug 323747 [[Clarify font prefs - Outgoing Mail as UTF-8 (Unicode) results in strange font behaviour (rename Other Languages to Unicode in the Fonts Encodings dialog).]] Yes, we should probably do that. This

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-09 Thread Jens Hatlak
Daniel wrote: And, speaking of German, to me that is an Other Languages, along with, Russian, Fin, Chinese, etc. Well, that's part of the problem. In a localized build, say, German, English would be among other languages, just like anything that is not German. Contrary to that, technically

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-09 Thread Daniel
Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: And, speaking of German, to me that is an Other Languages, along with, Russian, Fin, Chinese, etc. Well, that's part of the problem. In a localized build, say, German, English would be among other languages, just like anything that is not German. Contrary to

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-09 Thread Philip Chee
On Sun, 09 Sep 2012 20:13:20 +1000, Daniel wrote: Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: And, speaking of German, to me that is an Other Languages, along with, Russian, Fin, Chinese, etc. Well, that's part of the problem. In a localized build, say, German, English would be among other languages,

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-09 Thread Jens Hatlak
Daniel wrote: Jens Hatlak wrote: Daniel wrote: Unicode, etc, are Other Fonts, aren't they?? No. Unicode is not a font, it's an encoding. And for each encoding you can select which fonts to use. O.K., so are you suggesting I could use Times New Roman as a Unicode font or I could use Times

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Tom S.
Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. [snip] The upgrade was generally smooth. I have a problem with some emails and some newsgroup posts not appearing in desired font size. As a member of the tri-focal generation, for years I've used

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Richard Owlett
Tom S. wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. [snip] The upgrade was generally smooth. I have a problem with some emails and some newsgroup posts not appearing in desired font size. As a member of the tri-focal generation, for years I've used

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Philip TAYLOR
Tom S. wrote: There are separate sets of font preferences for Western and Other Languages. I'd think UTF-8 would typically use the latter... I cannot help but feel that the entire population of the drop-down for Edit / Preferences / Appearances / Fonts / Fonts for pre-dates

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Philip Chee
On 08/09/2012 17:50, Tom S. wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: Richard Owlett wrote: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. [snip] The upgrade was generally smooth. I have a problem with some emails and some newsgroup posts not appearing in desired font size. As a member of the tri-focal

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Jens Hatlak
Philip Chee wrote: We probably need to do what Thunderbird did in Bug 323747 [[Clarify font prefs - Outgoing Mail as UTF-8 (Unicode) results in strange font behaviour (rename Other Languages to Unicode in the Fonts Encodings dialog).]] Yes, we should probably do that. This also confused me

Re: Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-08 Thread Jens Hatlak
I wrote: Philip Chee wrote: We probably need to do what Thunderbird did in Bug 323747 [[Clarify font prefs - Outgoing Mail as UTF-8 (Unicode) results in strange font behaviour (rename Other Languages to Unicode in the Fonts Encodings dialog).]] Yes, we should probably do that. Filed a bug:

Unanticipated font problem with mail and news - was [Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12 ]

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Owlett
Richard Owlett wrote: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. [snip] The upgrade was generally smooth. I have a problem with some emails and some newsgroup posts not appearing in desired font size. As a member of the tri-focal generation, for years I've used Edit-Preference-Appearance-Fonts to

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-06 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/09/2012 07:45, Richard Owlett told the world: The only glitch I forsee is related to when I was trying to keep two machines I sync. I had a disk crash requireng a new drive. Although I was making backups of profiles, I've emails with overlapping date

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-06 Thread »Q«
On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:23:52 -0400 Paul B. Gallagher pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/09/2012 07:45, Richard Owlett told the world: The only glitch I forsee is related to when I was trying to keep two machines I sync. I had a disk crash

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-06 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
»Q« wrote: On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 03:23:52 -0400 Paul B. Gallagher pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 05/09/2012 07:45, Richard Owlett told the world: The only glitch I forsee is related to when I was trying to keep two machines I sync. I had a disk

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-05 Thread Richard Owlett
MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 04/09/2012 13:01, Richard Owlett told the world: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. In the future, I hope to have Debian (Squeeze?) on one machine. Other than backing up my profiles, is there any caution about such a jump in revision levels (I do not use

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-05 Thread Daniel
Richard Owlett wrote: MCBastos wrote: Interviewed by CNN on 04/09/2012 13:01, Richard Owlett told the world: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. In the future, I hope to have Debian (Squeeze?) on one machine. Other than backing up my profiles, is there any caution about such a jump in revision

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-05 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 05/09/2012 07:45, Richard Owlett told the world: The only glitch I forsee is related to when I was trying to keep two machines I sync. I had a disk crash requireng a new drive. Although I was making backups of profiles, I've emails with overlapping date ranges in

Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-04 Thread Richard Owlett
My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. In the future, I hope to have Debian (Squeeze?) on one machine. Other than backing up my profiles, is there any caution about such a jump in revision levels (I do not use _ANY_ extensions/add-ons)? I have a collection of old drives with profiles (emails

Re: Updating from 2.3.1 to 2.12

2012-09-04 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 04/09/2012 13:01, Richard Owlett told the world: My _current_ OS is WinXP Pro SP3. In the future, I hope to have Debian (Squeeze?) on one machine. Other than backing up my profiles, is there any caution about such a jump in revision levels (I do not use _ANY_