Re: Font Woe's

From: Tim Kynerd (jxd194702_at_sneakemail.com)
Date: 05/16/04 

Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 21:10:20 +0200

On Sun, 16 May 2004 19:14:34 +0200, Tim Kynerd wrote:

> On Sun, 16 May 2004 13:19:11 +0200, P.M. Groen wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> Recently I got my SuSE 9.1 CD's and was all happy about it. BUT! I live in
>> the Netherlands and we have some special characters with dead-keys like ë,
>> é, ï etc. Only in KMail they appear as spaces... Anyone having the same
>> problem?
>>
>> Regards.
>
> Yes, but I found that it wasn't with every mail I got, so I decided to
> assume that it's a problem with the encoding in the mail.
>
> But I just did some experimenting, and found that if I did two things:
> (1) selected the encoding manually (View --> Set Encoding), and
> (2) switched the font to Courier,
> a message that was displayed with little box characters in Luxi Sans (my
> favorite typeface) was displayed correctly in Courier.
>
> Manually selecting the encoding did not, by itself, fix the display
> problem with Luxi Sans, so one possibility is that it's a problem with
> that font (and there could be other problems with fonts).
>
> I did check the headers for the mail I was experimenting with, and there
> are no MIME settings or other indications of the encoding in the headers.
> One guess is that Kmail formerly would use your default encoding (set
> under the Composer options) for the mail you receive that didn't have any
> encoding indicated in the headers, and that it's simply gotten stricter
> about this. But I dunno.
>
> When I left the typeface as Courier and switched View --> Set Encoding
> back to "Auto," I got spaces as you describe.

More info: After I'd done this experimenting, I switched the font back (I
should note that I was selecting and deselecting View --> Use Fixed Font),
and everything except the headers displays correctly even in Luxi Sans,
indicating that it isn't a font problem. 

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