Fonts Change When Composing Emails In Thunderbird 3.0b2

[Robert L Cochran]

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

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

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.


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[Michael J Gruber]

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

[Christopher Beland]

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.