305430 - utf-8 text is displayed in a larger font

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 270287

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Esham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.6.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.2.2
Build Identifier: Thunderbird 1.0.6

In news messages [1] marked as utf-8 [2], the text is displayed as Times New Roman, 16pt.  My default 
is Times New Roman, 15pt; after changing this to a different typeface and size, the utf-8 text continued 
to be displayed in 16pt TNR.  Unchecking the "allow messages to use different fonts" option had no 
effect.

As an example, take the thread "Newlines mangled when pasting in normal mode [Vim 7, OS X]" from 
comp.editors.  The first message in the thread (by me, and posted as utf-8) displays in 16pt TNR, while 
the reply from Mikolaj Machowski (no charset specified) displays in the expected 15pt.

[1] I don't use Thunderbird for mail, so I don't know about mail messages.
[2] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8.  Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  View a news (mail?) message formatted as utf-8.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Related to bug 270287?

Comment 2

[Benjamin Esham]

This is indeed a duplicate of Bug 270287, which was marked INVALID.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 270287 ***