From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T13:03:49+09:00
Subject: Re: OT -RE: HTML email

On Thursday, October 7, 2004, 2:00:56 PM, Gavin wrote:

> 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 :)

But not my response.  Which is kind of unusual.

Sorry for creating all this off-topic fuss.  In my defense, it seems
I'm not the only one with this affliction.

Gavin