Link between Unicode reading font and message headers

[David Trimboli]

I prefer to read plain text messages in the Georgia font for its
screen-friendliness, text figures, and more diacritic characters than
the default, Arial. I also prefer to default to Unicode (UTF-8) whenever
possible. However, I have discovered that the main window in Windows
Mail uses the Unicode proportional font setting — but Georgia is not a
good font for the main window. It really needs to be sans-serif to be
readable.

I don't suppose there's a way to use Arial for the main window while
using Georgia for Unicode messages? I know I can force messages to the
User Defined font, but I would rather read with the correct encoding if
possible.

 

[Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM]

I prefer to read plain text messages in the Georgia font for its
screen-friendliness, text figures, and more diacritic characters than the
default, Arial. I also prefer to default to Unicode (UTF-8) whenever
possible. However, I have discovered that the main window in Windows Mail
uses the Unicode proportional font setting — but Georgia is not a good font
for the main window. It really needs to be sans-serif to be readable.

I don't suppose there's a way to use Arial for the main window while using
Georgia for Unicode messages? I know I can force messages to the User
Defined font, but I would rather read with the correct encoding if
possible.

Tools | Options | Read | Fonts
Select the desired encoding and give it the desired font.
When coding is defined in the message headers that encoding will be used.
You can select different fonts for different encodings.

 

[David Trimboli]

Tools | Options | Read | Fonts
Select the desired encoding and give it the desired font.
When coding is defined in the message headers that encoding will be
used. You can select different fonts for different encodings.

I guess it's not possible. Oh well.

 

[David Trimboli]

I prefer to read plain text messages in the Georgia font for its
screen-friendliness, text figures, and more diacritic characters than
the default, Arial. I also prefer to default to Unicode (UTF-8)
whenever possible. However, I have discovered that the main window in
Windows Mail uses the Unicode proportional font setting — but Georgia
is not a good font for the main window. It really needs to be
sans-serif to be readable.

I don't suppose there's a way to use Arial for the main window while
using Georgia for Unicode messages? I know I can force messages to the
User Defined font, but I would rather read with the correct encoding
if possible.

Hmm, I think I've got it. I had previously set the default encoding to
Unicode. I have set the default encoding back to Western European and
suddenly the main window stays completely independent of the various
encoding fonts.

Moral: don't change the default reading encoding.