• [ SOLVED] Re: Yet ANOTHER ThunderTurd ( Thunderbird ) topic... Text Siz

    From Chris M@21:1/5 to Bret Busby on Sun Jun 2 22:10:01 2024
    Bret Busby wrote:

    For

    Language
    Choose the languages used to display menus, messages, and
    notifications from Thunderbird.

    I have set English (GB) which, I expect, will confound anything that
    tries to impose characters that are not what I want.

    ....
    Bret Busby
    Armadale
    Western Australia
    (UTC+0800)
    .................

    So, I am guessing that any ENGLISH speaking country uses UTF-8?

    US, GB ( Canada, Australia, Probably South Africa, uses GB for spell
    checking)

    If not, then what happens to my email? Is it shown in a different font,
    than what you have specified on your end?

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  • From Chris M@21:1/5 to Felix Miata on Sun Jun 2 22:20:01 2024
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    Felix Miata wrote:
    It might be worth checking what language the emails are in. Thunderbird

    allows you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if
    you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you
    can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to set a font
    for "Latin" writing system. However, note that there is also "Other
    Writing Systems" so I can imagine that, if these emails aren't UTF-8 -
    if they're some strange Windows encoding, for example - they might not
    be using the font you think you've set.
    < SNIP >

    BACK STORY:

    This all started this last night on the TDE ( Trinity Desktop) mail list:

    Felix here got to talking about Seamonkey, and it got me interested in
    what it was up to, and I thought " I haven't tried SM in years, let me
    download it"

    Well, The browser barely works.=-O:-(

    But, The email client that I am typing this email in right now, is
    SeaMonkey's mail client and I am LOVING IT, it reminds me of my beloved Netscape Navigator email
    client that I use to use back on XP, before AOL killed off Netscape. >:o

    Ohhh Yes, I was a huge Netscape fan back then! 8-)O:-)

    I was mad for a long time after AOL killed off Netscape 9. I don't even remember when that happened? 2008? 2009?

    So, I got the email client set up but replies from a certain person were
    TINY TINY TINY.

    Interesting enough, Felix I just opened an email from DEP and went to
    "VIEW MESSAGE SOURCE"

    and scrolled through the text and found out that DEP ( That's a user
    over on the TDE list ) is in fact using UTF-8.

    "Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

    Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"

    Then, I just so happen to come across this plug in and WOW, what a difference!

    I am guessing that everybody else uses regular TB, and me and Felix are the only ones that still cling
    to Seamonkey?

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    THANKS IN ADVANCE!

    CHRIS

    CHRIS@CWM030.COM

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    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
    </head>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Felix Miata wrote:<br>
    </div>
    <blockquote type="cite"
    cite="mid:f0588c92-e312-cb9f-8139-fceb329f480e@earthlink.net">It
    might be worth checking what language the emails are in.
    Thunderbird</blockquote>
    <br>
    <blockquote type="cite"
    cite="mid:f0588c92-e312-cb9f-8139-fceb329f480e@earthlink.net">allows
    you to specify fonts separately for each writing system (e.g. if
    <blockquote type="cite">
    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">you want to specify fonts for Japanese or Greek or Khmer messages, you
    can do). For English and comparable languages, you want to set a font
    for "Latin" writing system. However, note that there is also "Other
    Writing Systems" so I can imagine that, if these emails aren't UTF-8 -
    if they're some strange Windows encoding, for example - they might not
    be using the font you think you've set.
    </pre>
    </blockquote>
    <pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">&lt; SNIP &gt;
    </pre>
    </blockquote>
    <br>
    BACK STORY:<br>
    <br>
    This all started this last night on the TDE ( Trinity Desktop) mail
    list:<br>
    <br>
    Felix here got to talking about Seamonkey, and it got me interested
    in what it was up to, and I thought " I haven't tried SM in years,
    let me download it" <br>
    <br>
    Well, The browser barely works.<span class="moz-smiley-s8"><span>=-O</span></span><span
    class="moz-smiley-s2"><span>:-(</span></span><br>
    <br>
    But, The email client that I am typing this email in right now, is
    SeaMonkey's mail client and I am LOVING IT, it reminds me of my
    beloved Netscape Navigator email <br>
    client that I use to use back on XP, before AOL killed off Netscape.
    <span class="moz-smiley-s10"><span>&gt;:o</span></span><br>
    <br>
    Ohhh Yes, I was a huge Netscape fan back then! <span
    class="moz-smiley-s11"><span>8-)</span></span><span
    class="moz-smiley-s14"><span>O:-)</span></span><br>
    <br>
    I was mad for a long time after AOL killed off Netscape 9. I don't
    even remember when that happened? 2008? 2009?<br>
    <br>
    So, I got the email client set up but replies from a certain person
    were TINY TINY TINY. <br>
    <br>
    Interesting enough, Felix I just opened an email from DEP and went
    to "VIEW MESSAGE SOURCE"<br>
    <br>
    and scrolled through the text and found out that DEP ( That's a user
    over on the TDE list ) is in fact using UTF-8.<br>
    <br>
    "Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
    <pre>Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64"

    Then, I just so happen to come across this plug in and WOW, what a difference!

    I am guessing that everybody else uses regular TB, and me and Felix are the only ones that still cling
    to Seamonkey?

    ============================================================
    THANKS IN ADVANCE!

    CHRIS

    <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:CHRIS@CWM030.COM">CHRIS@CWM030.COM</a>

    * Lenovo ThinkCentre M710q*~~~* 1 TB SSD*~~~*15.5 GiB of ram*

    ~~* Q4OS Trinity Edition* ~~
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