On 09/23/2015 01:53 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
Font Handling on Linux
Linux provides system fonts "sans-serif", "serif" and "monospace". These font names conflict with the generic CSS font family names. Therefore and for compatibility with Thunderbirds on other platforms, the ability to compose messages using these three fonts was removed on Linux. Users who had selected one of these fonts as their default composition font have to select a different font. Instead of "sans-serif", "serif" or "monospace" users should select "Helvetica, Arial", "Times" or "Courier" (or "Fixed Width") respectively.
The three aforementioned Linux system fonts can still be used as default display fonts.
You will be unhappy to note that this effects both FF and TB. So if you are wonder why file listings like download.opensuse.org/repositories/... are harder to read because they are displayed in some weird windows mono font -- this is the answer. Wolfgang (oh, mozilla wizard), How in the heck do we tell both FF and TB to display messages and plain-text pages in the font chosen in: Options-> Display-> Formatting-> Advanced-> (our font choice)? It seems no matter what they are set to, if the page, or message, has the *charset=utf-8* included somewhere, then you get the ms default font instead of your chosen font? cc: Mozilla Wizard -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org