Ralph Shumaker wrote: > 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?
Let's blame it all on DJA. :-) --or his old version of tbird, anyway. Looking at copies of this thread in my "trash", you sent original encoded as iso8859-1 (with e-acute) I replied with same encoding with same e-acute DJA replied to my reply in utf8 but bad e-acute (wasn't re-encoded?) DJA's settings force replies to be utf8, but the evidence seems to be that tbird 1.5.0.12 doesn't properly re-encode Regards, ..jim -- KPLUG-List@kernel-panic.org http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
