OT - Thunderbird peculuarity

[Iain]

Over the past few days I've been having a strange problem with Thunderbird 13.0.1 Several posts (and emails) are being rendered in a font that needs a microscope to read it. e.g. the post by TNP Subject: All the windmills in the UK are not supplying enough electricity is one such, as is his reply to Harry. Also a reply from Tim W There are many more, all from different ISPs and different news readers. Anyone got an idea of what's going on and how to fix it? Cheers Iain

[Andy Champ]

I am using the same version and don't see the problem. Must be your end

- sorry!

Andy

[Andy Burns]

Not seeing problem here either ...

[The Natural Philosopher]

try in preferences under text size. Also look at charecater encodings

[John Rumm]

Does doing CTRL + a few times solve it?

(Effects like that are often down to the use of unusual character encodings in messages - quite often triggered by things that have been pasted into a message from another source with "odd" characters like MS Word style auto quotes etc.

However, in this case, the messages you cite appear to have normal UTF-8 encoding. They are also displaying here just fine).

[Brian Gaff]

Yes, go for an old version of the software. Nobody has a good word to say about the current Mozilla policy of release and be damned about the bugs.

Brian

[Lee]

Also looks fine here on 15.0a2

If it's a settings issue then Unsub/resub might be worth a try, since Thunderbird seems to "forget" a lot of the individual group settings when you do that ;)

[Iain]

Minimum text size set at 24pt and character set is (ISO8859-1)

Iain

[Rick Hughes]

all mine in TB are OK ... you must have tripped a setting somehow (hotkey combination ?)

[Iain]

I had to go to Tools > Options > Display > Formating > Advanced and select User Defined then set a Minimum Font size of 20

Iain