283804 - Different font-size for different newsgroup messages

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Martin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: version 1.0 (20041206)

Recently, I realized that Thunderbird (1.0, WinXP) displays postings of some
people in a slightly larger font. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. subscribe to netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news
2. take a look at all messages in that group from the 2005-02-12 that start a
new thread
3. The message "8-bit Subject: encoding in Thunderbird." is displayed in a
slightly larger font than the other postings. (look at the o's to see the difference

Actual Results:  
some postings are displayed in a slightly larger font

Expected Results:  
all postings should be displayed exactly the same way

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is probably because that particular posting was written using a charset in 
a language group other than the normal, Western group that you typically see 
messages in.  TB, like all Mozilla products, specifies different fonts for 
different language groups, so that you can specify a font with good Chinese 
support separately from the one you use for Western, or Cyrillic, or Greek.
The fonts used for Chinese or Japanese default to a slightly larger size.

If you want, you can go thru all the language groups in the Font settings and 
point everything to the same set of fonts, with the same sizes.

xref bug 245340.

Comment 2

[Martin]

Oh! Thanks a lot! Sorry for wronly opening a bugreport. (I did try to get
feedback on this issue on mozillazine.org beforehand, though.)