X-Face Headers And Fonts

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Blinky the Shark

Someone over in alt.comp.freeware is reporting that posts with X-Face
headers are showing in his Moz 1.3 with a different text size than
non-faced posts. This makes no sense to me.

The post that kicked off the discussion was a plaintext post with an
X-Face, which someone busted for being HTML -- which it wasn't. I see
nothing unusual in the headers other than charset="iso-2022-jp".

Here's the message in question.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>

Ideas? C'mon over...
 
Someone over in alt.comp.freeware is reporting that posts with X-Face
headers are showing in his Moz 1.3 with a different text size than
non-faced posts. This makes no sense to me.

The post that kicked off the discussion was a plaintext post with an
X-Face, which someone busted for being HTML -- which it wasn't. I see
nothing unusual in the headers other than charset="iso-2022-jp".

Here's the message in question.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Ideas? C'mon over...
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My guess? The `@' in that particular X-Face string is freaking out some of
the HTML-capable "newsreaders".
 
My guess? The `@' in that particular X-Face string is freaking out some of
the HTML-capable "newsreaders".
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The face you posted that with has one, too. And there's a subsequent period,
which combination you were wondering about, in your other post.

How 'bout it, Mozzers -- is FD's post also buggering your fonts?
 
Blinky the Shark said:
Someone over in alt.comp.freeware is reporting that posts with X-Face
headers are showing in his Moz 1.3 with a different text size than
non-faced posts. This makes no sense to me.

The post that kicked off the discussion was a plaintext post with an
X-Face, which someone busted for being HTML -- which it wasn't. I see
nothing unusual in the headers other than charset="iso-2022-jp".
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Mozilla has different font settings per charset...
 
Around 9/8/2003 5:58 PM, Blinky the Shark proclaimed for posterity:
JanC wrote:




Hmmmm. That seems like a better answer than it being an X-Face header.
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Gaa, I just switched from Moz to Xnews and y'all are making me setup in
Moz again ;-).

Anyhoo, it had to be the * Content-type: text/plain;
charset="iso-2022-jp" * that did it. Specifically the charset part,
since a charset=ISO-8859-15 or charset=us-asciidoesn't make it switch to
the other font display.

That's all the testing I did. Mind you I am no longer using Moz 1.3 but
rather a nightly build of 1.5b, but the same applies.
 
Around 9/8/2003 5:58 PM, Blinky the Shark proclaimed for
posterity:
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[ snip ]
Gaa, I just switched from Moz to Xnews and y'all are making me
setup in Moz again ;-).

Anyhoo, it had to be the * Content-type: text/plain;
charset="iso-2022-jp" * that did it. Specifically the charset
part, since a charset=ISO-8859-15 or charset=us-asciidoesn't make
it switch to the other font display.

That's all the testing I did. Mind you I am no longer using Moz
1.3 but rather a nightly build of 1.5b, but the same applies.
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Btw, all I was doing was obviously confirming what JanC wrote. Wasn't
trying to take any credit for 'discovering' this on my own...
 
Brandon said:
On 09/08/2003 at 09:51:44pm, Brandon Supernaw proclaimed for
posterity:
Around 9/8/2003 5:58 PM, Blinky the Shark proclaimed for
posterity:
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[ snip ]
Gaa, I just switched from Moz to Xnews and y'all are making me
setup in Moz again ;-).
Anyhoo, it had to be the * Content-type: text/plain;
charset="iso-2022-jp" * that did it. Specifically the charset
part, since a charset=ISO-8859-15 or charset=us-asciidoesn't make
it switch to the other font display.
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<answering both of your posts here>

Cool -- thanks for the collaboration.
Btw, all I was doing was obviously confirming what JanC wrote. Wasn't
trying to take any credit for 'discovering' this on my own...
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It didn't look like you were. This is a peer-reviewed medium, and you
were just confirming a theory. Carry on! :)
 
fLameDogg wrote:

The face you posted that with has one, too. And there's a subsequent period,
which combination you were wondering about, in your other post.
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You're right. Bad guess on my part.
 
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