Hi there!
On 2 Feb 00, at 22:24, Allie Martin wrote
about "Font Problem":
> WCP is the second font that I've used which doesn't appear
> whenever I'm composing new messages. Sometimes when replying to some
> messages (I can't seem to detect the pattern), I don't get it to use
> as well. Courier New appears in its place. Reading all messages is
> fine in that they appear as they should in WCP.
Okay, let me try;-) I'm not sure that my guess is right, but anyhow, something
is needed to begin with;-)
Consider you get a message in Russian (here's one: ςοσσιρ -- it's how
Russia is written in Russian;-)). Then the headers of this message very
probably state:
charset="koi8-r".
Now try to reply to this message. What charset TB will use for reply? Yeah, it
will use koi8-r, unless you explicitely change it via the options. Now the
question: why should TB use koi8-r for replying to a message that is written in
koi8-r? Explanation is simple indeed: TB needs to ensure, that the 8-bit text
looks (when quoted by you) to you the same way it looked to me when _I_
composed my message. _If_ TB used another charset for reply, say, ISO-
8859-9 (it's Turkish), it would imply, that your reply should have been shown
by TB using another font script (in this case, Turkish, since in X-LAT tables
it's set up as the font script used with Turkish encoding). To understand what I
mean clearly, just start composing a reply to this message and then manually
change the encoding used (right-click the corresponding area of statusbar
and select Western, for example). Now compare how the word ςοσσιρ
looked like when you viewed my message and how it looks like now, after you
have switched the encoding. The reason is that TB has switched the font
script used in the message editor when you changed the charset.
Now I'll try to answer your initial question. When you're replying to the
message in Russian (i.e. the message which is koi8-r-encoded), TB, following
the logic described above, needs to change the font script used in the
message editor to Cyrillic (used for Russian). What will happen if the font
you're using doesn't support the Cyrillic script? Clearly, that's a problem for
TB;-) I think, TB will just temporarily switch to the font that supposedly
supports the Cyrillic script. This means, Courier New.
> Another strange thing is that whenever I open automated
> replies, they are in WCP font. When I opened this message in the
> Outbox, it was in Courier New.
>
> Any ideas why that would happen and any suggested work
> arounds? I like font consistency and dislike courier new intensely.
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SY, Alex
(St.Petersburg, Russia)
http://mph.phys.spbu.ru/~akiselev
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