On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote:

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?

I use SeaMonkey, with javash*** disabled. Uses much less resources, and,
less likely to crash.

I use Fartyfox for stuff that requires javash***, and, in that, I have a
number of security and privacy add-ons; I think, for SeaMonkey, I have
only the Bluhell firewall add-on and the English-GB dictionary. I have
and use multiple other web browsers, including Epiphany, Vivaldi, and
Pale Moon (which I have not used for a while), but, mainly use SeaMonkey
and Fartyfox.

For email, I use Tbird as a webmail kind of application, for viewing and responding to recent email, and, for downloading email, storing,
archiving, and, responding to old email, I use the most powerful email application that I have found; alpine, previously known as pine. I use
claws mail for one of my email accounts that does not have much throughput.

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
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Bret Busby wrote:

On 3/6/24 04:14, Chris M wrote:

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?

I use SeaMonkey, with javash*** disabled. Uses much less resources,
and, less likely to crash.

I use Fartyfox for stuff that requires javash***, and, in that, I have
a number of security and privacy add-ons; I think, for SeaMonkey, I
have only the Bluhell firewall add-on and the English-GB dictionary. I
have and use multiple other web browsers, including Epiphany, Vivaldi,
and Pale Moon (which I have not used for a while), but, mainly use
SeaMonkey and Fartyfox.

For email, I use Tbird as a webmail kind of application, for viewing
and responding to recent email, and, for downloading email, storing, archiving, and, responding to old email, I use the most powerful email application that I have found; alpine, previously known as pine. I use
claws mail for one of my email accounts that does not have much
throughput.

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

I've got a soft spot for Evolution ( Due to loving the OLD Outlook--
Circa 2003) and now SeaMonkey.

Claws-Mail is " eh, okay" but makes forwarding emails with HTML in them
a PITA.

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