In <news:ccudnblyj-6c4xxonz2dnuvz_oedn...@mozilla.org>,
"Paul B. Gallagher" <pau...@pbgdashtranslations.com> wrote:

> Daniel wrote:
> > On 30/05/14 13:23, Hartmut Figge wrote:
> >> Geoff Welsh:
> >>> Hartmut Figge wrote:
> >>
> >>>> It should suffice to select for Western and Unicode.
> >>>
> >>> It /should/ suffice to choose ONE font that I like to (or can
> >>> easily) read, and have all messages I select appear in that font
> >>
> >> For SM, the diplayed font depends on the Character Encoding of the
> >> message.
> >
> > So, Hartmut, this must mean that somewhere with-in the message
> > header, the font in which it was composed *must* be listed, doesn't
> > it??
> 
> No, unless it's an HTML message, which can contain a font
> specification.
> 
> For a plain-text message, you'll see only the charset tag, and SM
> will use that info to decide which font to use in displaying it. 

And if there is no charset specified in the headers of a text/plain
message, the charset is implicitly US-ASCII.  In that case, I believe
SeaMonkey displays it with the user's font choice for western encodings.
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