Re: [libreoffice-users] Fonts on Mailing List [Was: replace normal font with superscript]

Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:
> On 10/02/2013 02:13 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbourne@spamgourmet.com wrote:
> > Andrew's email was sent as plain text, so displays using whatever font
> > your mail client is set to use. For me (Mozilla SeaMonkey), that's set
> > to Courier New for Western or Unicode text. However, the Content-Type
> > headers of Andrew's email and your reply indicate a Japanese character
> > set is used, for which my client is set to use MS Gothic. I guess
> > you're seeing something similar - MS Gothic does appear a bit more
> > difficult to read for Western text, but presumably it includes
> > Japanese characters while Courier New doesn't.
> >
> > Mark.
>
>
> Well, it sure does not display in plain text.

There is no formatting in the email - there is only plain text, no HTML 
or other formatted part. It does display in plain text, but using a 
different font because the headers indicate that a Japanese character 
set is used.

> My display default in Thunderbird is Times Roman.

Presumably that's so for text in Western character sets. I'm not sure 
where the fonts are set in Thunderbird, but in SeaMonkey it's under:
  Edit > Preferences > Appearance > Fonts
There you can set the fonts used for Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace, etc. 
However, by default it shows the fonts used for those things for text in 
on particular character set (Western in my case). Selecting a different 
character set from the "Fonts for" dropdown list shows (and allows 
changing of) the fonts to be used for text in that character set. You'll 
probably find that selecting Japanese there shows a different set of 
fonts, other than Times Roman.

> The first image shows me the font that is unreadable
> The second one shows my normal/default "Times" display.

Indeed, I see similar results with those emails, but with MS Gothic for 
Andrew's and Courier New usually. But it's nothing to do with any fonts 
the sender has set in the email, only those set in your Thunderbird for 
the different character sets.

Mark.

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