Thunderbird and Fonts

[Jay Daniels]

Daryl Styrk wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:36:18AM -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:
>> I noticed some fonts in my email in Thunderbird did not show up. 
>> Special characters like $ at times would show up as strange characters.
>>
>> To test, I goto Edit/Preferences/Display/Fonts button.  I "unchecked" 
>> Allow messages to use other fonts.  I Pick "Unicode (UTF-8)" for both 
>> Outgoing Mail and Incoming Mail. Then view/Message Body as Plain Text 
>> (default).
>>
>> This seem to work ok.  Note, I send and view in plain text.  Does this 
>> have any unseen ramifications?
>>
>>  From my understanding, UTF-8 is a universal character encoding for all 
>> languages.  Is this right?  Should we all be using UTF-8?
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>>
>> jay
> 
> UTF-8 here.  I only compose mail in plain text. (mutt + vim) And I have
> yet to find a mailing list that prefers to receive HTML mail.  So I'm
> always reading plain text too. Google something like 'html email sucks'
> and you'll see why.
> 
> 

Daryl, the only thing that keeps me from using mutt instead of 
thunderbird is I see no way to adjust the left margin in the 
gnome-terminal!  I mean, my text in messages is butted right up against 
the window in the left side which makes it difficult to read.

I have always used eterm in the past, but eterm in ubuntu repository was 
buggy the last time I tested it.

Even if it means using a different terminal, anyone know how to get a 
margin in the left side of the terminal (similar to thunderbird compose 
window) when using mutt?


jay