Link between Unicode reading font and message headers

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.

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David
Stardate 7830.4

"David Trimboli" <david@trimboli.name> wrote in message
news:%23dT2Xo1GIHA.2100@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>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.
>
> --
> David
> Stardate 7830.4

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.

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Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM
www.fjsmjs.com
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"Frank Saunders MS-MVP IE,OE/WM" <franksaunders@mvps.org> wrote in
message news1D3A625-8E72-4EA5-AA1A-1C2771314725@microsoft.com...
> "David Trimboli" <david@trimboli.name> wrote in message
> news:%23dT2Xo1GIHA.2100@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> 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.

I guess it's not possible. Oh well.

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David
Stardate 7848.8

"David Trimboli" <david@trimboli.name> wrote in message
news:%23dT2Xo1GIHA.2100@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>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.

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David
Stardate 7848.9