On 09/22/2015 11:03 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
David C. Rankin composed on 2015-09-22 22:33 (UTC-0500):
Opening tbird today I was bewildered why my display of plain-text messages was now *bold*. Additionally, while I set the plain-text font to Dejavu Mono, the font face looks like some MS Consolas??
Selecting DejaVu Mono instead of monospace might actually work to disadvantage. DejaVu Mono is the first choice for the generic monospace via fontconfig in more Linux distros than all others combined, including every openSUSE release as far back as I can remember DejaVu existing.
Looking at the message headers, it seems when the header contains a Content-Type of utf-8, then I get that funky bold plain text font. Specifically, when I see this in the header:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed
On the other hand, when Content-Type is just plain ascii, the message is displayed int the proper Dejavu Mono font. The headers contain:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
The only related setting is:
Options-> Display-> Formatting-> Advanced-> Character Encodings-> Outgoing
Which for outgoing defaults to UTF-8.
However, if I change the outgoing type to match the incoming type of *Western (ISO-8859-1)*, then messages I send (to myself as a test), look normal when viewing them. A day or two ago, I took the zypper lock off of thunderbird, and first updated to the version in the Mozilla:/legacy repo, then when running a normal update, allowed it to update to 38.02 in the update repo.
Is anybody else seeing this? It is annoying as ..... Looking, I found complaints at mozilla about windows versions doing this, but this is the first time I've seen it happen on Linux. Anybody else noticed this? If so, any fixes?
I use SM, not TB, but probably this will get you by: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/989709
I had same problem in SM years ago, but the font prefs UI in TB is different.
FWIW, http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-face-samplesM.html and http://fm.no-ip.com/Auth/Font/fonts-comps-linuxmono.html provide ways to compare some common monospace fonts, assuming for any specific font they call for you have it installed. Maybe one of them will help you figure out which font is showing up looking bold and you can remove it.
Thanks Felix! Grr!! I found the problem, I still haven't fixed it. Mozilla gave us this little gift in tbird 38: 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. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/new-thunderbird-38 Share this article: http://mzl.la/1FjbnZo If I can't get this sorted, I'll drop back to 31. -- 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