Björn Persson >> Do you often receive emails that are encoded in UTF-8 but claim to be some >> other encoding? If not, I suggest that you stop enforcing any particular >> encoding. Let Thunderbird use the encoding that is specified in each >> individual message, and all will be good as long as the messages adhere to >> standards. g: > i tried that but type would change in size and i had to squint or lean > back to read messages, along with stretching page sides. after going > thru a lot of trouble, i have *all* settings to utf-8 and do best i > can to figure out what crude is. And that's your problem, the only characters that are compatible with UTF-8, are the US-ASCII ones. After that (character 127), there's differences. You have to use the correct encoding. If you're seeing changes in fonts depending on the encoding used, have a play with your client's font preferences. You might have to manually select font families for different encodings (named after localities, rather than listed as ISO-8859-x specifications, in Thunderbird). You probably want to untick the option to allow messages to use other fonts. Fonts issues are one thing I really dislike about Firefox and Thunderbird, they've convoluted it all to hell, and use *pixel* sizes in a disastrous fashion. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.25.11-97.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list