Reading LC List Digests

[J. Landman Gay]

I did a quick search and probably found the same things you did. It does seem to point to a 
font problem. I know you said you'd tried different fonts but maybe another one would work. In 
general, Arial and Helvetica are very complete but you may have others. You can use Font Book 
to examine them and see which ones have the most extensive set of glyphs. I'd think Courier 
would work though, and you tried that. Check to see if your Courier has a complete set of 
glyphs, I don't think the older original Courier did but Courier New does.

If we were talking about LC I'd think it was a problem with 8-bit vs. 16-bit translations but 
you'd think Mail would know how to deal with that.

Also, I read that you need to restart Mail when you change the default font.

On 12/2/21 11:13 AM, Robert Earp via use-livecode wrote:
> Sorry about the bad header on my last post, but maybe that is yet another indication of the requirement for a decent list digests reader, at least for old dudes, or do I blame it on Omricon !!
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> Sorry Jacqueline and Curry, I should have sent an acknowledgement of your previous speedy response to my question.
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> Jacqueline and Bob, in Apple Mail I can only find an option for plain text when composing mail, not receiving mail, but you can choose the font used to display a message.  I normally use Lucida Sans as its cross platform (from what I understand), but I have tried many others such as Courier to no avail.  Regardless, I don’t think mail clients are designed to handle mail lists in an intuitive manner, which is why I asked my original question looking for a “great” GUI hopefully in LC ;-)
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> Thanks again and kind regards, Bob...
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> Robert (Bob) Earp
> White Rock
> British Columbia
> Canada
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>> On Dec 1, 2021, at 09:00, use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode-request at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
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>> From: Bob Sneidar <bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com <mailto:bobsneidar at iotecdigital.com>>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>> Subject: Re: Reading LC List Digests
>> Message-ID: <CDDA4E7C-5862-42EB-AE28-E3125CC5008F at iotecdigital.com <mailto:CDDA4E7C-5862-42EB-AE28-E3125CC5008F at iotecdigital.com>>
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>> Yes it does. I use Apple Mail in this way and it works fine.
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>> Bob S
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>> On Nov 19, 2021, at 8:36 PM, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com><mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>> wrote:
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>> I'm not sure why you're getting garbage in the posts. I have Thunderbird set to show posts as text-only and I don't see the problem. I've never much liked Apple Mail so I'm not familiar with its features but maybe it has something similar to the above.
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