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   Marian to All   
   Re: Discussion: How to set up your mobil   
   07 Dec 25 19:32:36   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, comp.mobile.android, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Carlos E.R. wrote:> No, the font used is chosen locally by your client,   
   which I take to be   
   > Thunderbird. TB can use a different font for each different charset.   
   >   
   > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="big5"   
   > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit   
   > Content-Language: en-GB   
   >   
   > I'm not familiar with this choice.   
      
   Andy found a flaw in my newsreader, which is a custom unique newsreader.   
      
   In that newsreader, there's one thing I've never figured out, which is how   
   fonts work in Usenet (since most lines in my header are completely random).   
      
   As you know, I have a unique newsreader which is simply telnet with gVim.   
   The scripts don't care what fonts are used. It's just a line to telnet.   
      
   The header lines not added by the nntp server are added by my scripts.   
   But they're essentially random.   
      
   I got the lines, long ago, from scraping Usenet for header lines.   
   So some newsreaders tended to have one set of font lines, while other   
   newsreaders tended to have a different set of font lines. It's random.   
      
   They change whenever I flip a switch to the next dictionary lookup.   
   I'll do that right now so that you can see different header lines.   
      
   I have no idea how the header lines look to the recipient though.   
   Nor how the fonts are interpreted as they're always sent the same.   
      
   But nothing has changed in that I'm still using telnet with gVim.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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