Gavin Sinclair
10/7/2004 4:04:00 AM
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, "Peña, 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