287009 - Minimum font size is ignored

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Gili Tzabari]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225 Firefox/1.0.1

When I reply to a message, the font size it picks for the text found therein
ignores my "minimum font size" settings. The minimum font size I have it set to
is 16 and this clearly works for reading preexisting messages, but when I hit
REPLY, the fonts shrinks so much I can't read it at all.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Assuming that the original message was in HTML and you are composing the reply 
as HTML:  There are actually (unfortunately) a number of "minimum font size" 
settings, once for each "language group" -- if you look at (in TB 1.0)
Options | Fonts, the language group is selected at the top of the page -- 
Western, Eastern, Unicode, Japanese, Greek, etc.  (If you're using a trunk 
build, fonts are now under   Options | Display.)  See bug 181722.

What I suspect you are seeing is a message in an encoding for which you've set 
the minimum font size (e.g. ISO-8859-1, part of the Western group) but the reply 
is being composed with another encoding (e.g. UTF-8, part of the Unicode group) 
for which no (or a different) minimum font size has been set.  At any rate, I 
can easily duplicate the problem if I make settings accordingly, but if I reply 
in the same encoding as the original, the minimum font setting is applied.

That same options page contains settings for controlling the encoding of your 
reply.

If you disagree with this analysis, feel free to reopen, but please explain why; 
otherwise, this is not actually a bug:   => Invalid

Comment 2

[Gili Tzabari]

In my case, I set the minimum font size for "Western" and when I am replying to
the message if I go to "Options -> Character Encoding" it says it is "Western
(ISO-8859-1)" so clearly it *should* be respecting my minimum font size, but it
is not. I even disabled "Allow messages to use other fonts".

Do you have another theory on what could be going wrong?

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gili Tzabari]

Confirmed this still exists in 1.5 beta 1. I don't seem to have permission to
change the status to NEW, can someone please do so?

Comment 5

[Gili Tzabari]

Hey, wake up! Thunderbird 1.5 exibits this bug, furthermore when reading an email with "<font size=3>foo</font>" Thunderbird does not respect the minimum font size I set (which is 16) and the resulting message contains tiny font that is too small to read. So in summary, this bug affects both message reading and composition.

You should be able to reproduce this very easily on your end. Please confirm.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Confirmed with TB 1.6a1-0105, and Seamonkey 1.0b-1215, Win2K.  Leaving it as a compose bug for the moment, but you're right that it shows up in the message display as well.

Comment 7

[Ahmad Syukri]

I believe https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357738 is a related bug?

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Gili, do you still see this issue?

Comment 9

[Gili Tzabari]

Seems to be fixed in version 24.6.0.

Thanks :)

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

thanks