Fonts Change When Composing Emails In Thunderbird 3.0b2

Michael J Gruber michaeljgruber+gmane at fastmail.fm
Tue Apr 21 11:46:55 UTC 2009


Dariusz J. Garbowski venit, vidit, dixit 21.04.2009 06:15:
> On 04/20/2009 09:48 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
>> When you compose an email in thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.x86_64 and 
>> the default font is an HTML font, for example "Nimbus Roman No9 L", 
>> there are times when you can be typing away happily and when the first 
>> line of text is almost completed, the font suddenly changes to 
>> "variable width". To fix it I have to select the "variable width" text 
>> and change it back to the desired font. Maybe it's my clumsy fingers 
>> executing a keyboard shortcut without me realizing it?
>>
>> Bob
>>
> 
> I don't think it's you triggering some keyboard shortcut. I see this 
> often myself. For seemingly no reason Thunderbird does that in certain 
> situations. It's extremely irritating.
> 
> 

Maybe the charset detector is at work here. TB can try and determine the
appropriate character set from your text. And the default font depends
on the character set.

Michael




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