From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T13:00:56+09:00
Subject: Re: OT -RE: HTML email

On Thursday, October 7, 2004, 1:54:31 PM, Markus wrote:

> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 18:22, "Pe�a, Botp" wrote:
>> trans. (T. Onoma) [mailto:transami@runbox.com] wrote:
>> > 
>> > Can anyone else verify this?  Are my messages actually 
>> > distorted on the other 
>> > end?
>> 
>> you are indeed sending plain text mail but your font appears as arial. Arial
>> appears small as compared to the usual courier or courier new font rendered
>> for text mails (as far as my windows gui client is concern though :-). My
>> advice is to use a fix-width font (like courier new) and _not_ a
>> proportional font (like arial).

>       Plain text does not specify the font (by definition).  It's just
> the text.  I suspect the people who are having problems reading his mail
> are having trouble with UTF-8, as was previously suggested, or something
> along those lines.

>    -- Markus

> P.S. Are any other poster's messages similarly difficult to read?
 
Any responses to T. Onoma's are, like yours above :)

I haven't found anything in my mailer ("The Bat!") that maps charsets
to fonts :(

Gavin