On 2021-09-20 at 03:21, David Christensen wrote: > Your message displays strangely on Thunderbird (oversized Courier > font?).
In my case, it displays with unusually-small characters and what looks like a different font, not unusually large ones. > Please verify that your e-mail client is configured to compose > messages in plain text (e.g. ASCII), not HTML. In this case, it has nothing to do with plain text vs. HTML. If you look at View -> Character Encoding (at least in my older Thunderbird, although I have no reason to expect it to have moved in newer ones), you'll see that the message in question is encoded with the character set "Chinese, Simplified". (For that matter, so is your reply - although not Stanislav's later reply, or the OP's reply to that.) Thunderbird can be - and, by default, is - configured to use different font settings for messages with different character encodings, on the principle that the font preferred for e.g. English may not have the glyphs needed for e.g. Chinese. Those different settings can include different sizes. (Again in my older Thunderbird, these settings are under Edit -> Preference -> Display -> Formatting -> Advanced.) In my own case, my default font configuration is Unicode, with a point size of 16 - but my Chinese, Simplified configuration has a point size of 14 (although with the exact same specification for what fonts to use). So that neatly explains why I see smaller characters in those messages. Given the OP's E-mail address, it's not surprising that he(?) may have a mail client configured for Chinese composition by default, and not have realized that it may make a difference to how the message appears when written in English. The upshot of which is: if you want to minimize experiencing this sort of mismatch, you should be able to adjust your per-character-set font settings to be more mutually consistent. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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