From: "Pena, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2004-10-07T15:06:31+09:00
Subject: Re: OT -RE: HTML email

Markus [mailto:markus@reality.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.

You are right. I made an ill-advice on font rendering. I'm using msoutlook
client and it (by default) automatically renders text differently according
to the encoding. Eg, your reply and transami have utf-8 flagged, while gavin
has latin iso. Me usually use westeurn iso w/c does not differ w gavin's
when rendered. I think it's a mailclient fault here. I've force my outlook
to use courier new, and it still renders utf-8 as arial :-(

> 
>    -- Markus
> 
> P.S. Are any other poster's messages similarly difficult to read?
> 

not difficult, just different :-) As I said, arial looks smaller specially
in some gui env. I'm replying using us-ascii and see if it gets
smaller/bigger -weird :-)

kind regards -botp