When you compose an email in thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.x86_64 and the default font is an HTML font, for example "Nimbus Roman No9 L", there are times when you can be typing away happily and when the first line of text is almost completed, the font suddenly changes to "variable width". To fix it I have to select the "variable width" text and change it back to the desired font. Maybe it's my clumsy fingers executing a keyboard shortcut without me realizing it?
Bob
On 04/20/2009 09:48 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
When you compose an email in thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.x86_64 and the default font is an HTML font, for example "Nimbus Roman No9 L", there are times when you can be typing away happily and when the first line of text is almost completed, the font suddenly changes to "variable width". To fix it I have to select the "variable width" text and change it back to the desired font. Maybe it's my clumsy fingers executing a keyboard shortcut without me realizing it?
Bob
I don't think it's you triggering some keyboard shortcut. I see this often myself. For seemingly no reason Thunderbird does that in certain situations. It's extremely irritating.
Dariusz J. Garbowski venit, vidit, dixit 21.04.2009 06:15:
On 04/20/2009 09:48 PM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
When you compose an email in thunderbird-3.0-2.1.beta2.fc11.x86_64 and the default font is an HTML font, for example "Nimbus Roman No9 L", there are times when you can be typing away happily and when the first line of text is almost completed, the font suddenly changes to "variable width". To fix it I have to select the "variable width" text and change it back to the desired font. Maybe it's my clumsy fingers executing a keyboard shortcut without me realizing it?
Bob
I don't think it's you triggering some keyboard shortcut. I see this often myself. For seemingly no reason Thunderbird does that in certain situations. It's extremely irritating.
Maybe the charset detector is at work here. TB can try and determine the appropriate character set from your text. And the default font depends on the character set.
Michael
I recommend filing a report at bugzilla.redhat.com against thunderbird. It might be worthwhile to experiment to see if the specific text that you type influences whether or not the bug is encountered. (It seems like it may be a usability problem, if nothing else.) It would also be worth noting if this started happening only recently.
-B.
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