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Michael T. Davis - 22 Jul 2009 17:34 GMT

...Eudora v6.2.4 (paid) under Mac OS X v10.5.7.

I have a user who often has messages displayed with the newlines
(can't tell if it's the CR or the LF) rendered as small unfilled boxes. Could
this be a font selection issue, or is there some other hidden option (e.g.
perhaps accessible via X-Eudora-Option) that would affect this behavior?

Thanks,
Mike
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Sander Tekelenburg - 25 Jul 2009 03:24 GMT

> ...Eudora v6.2.4 (paid) under Mac OS X v10.5.7.
>
> I have a user who often has messages displayed with the newlines
> (can't tell if it's the CR or the LF) rendered as small unfilled boxes. Could
> this be a font selection issue

Well, that'd be very easily verifiable by setting Eudora to use some
other (known to not be damaged) font and then open the same message.

But it sounds more likely to me that the message contains something
*else* than a CR or LF at that point, and possibly its Content-Type
header lies about its Body.

Might all these problematic messages be coming from the same suspect,
perhaps? ("Suspect" here might well be some specific mail client, even
if used by multiple people.)

> , or is there some other hidden option (e.g.
> perhaps accessible via X-Eudora-Option) that would affect this behavior?

Can't think of one. But it's a long list... :)

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Michael T. Davis - 25 Jul 2009 14:54 GMT

>> ...Eudora v6.2.4 (paid) under Mac OS X v10.5.7.
>>
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>
>Can't think of one. But it's a long list... :)

He was using the Tahoma font, which apparently came from Microsoft
(via MS Office installation). When he switched the font to something more
standard, the "squares" at the end of lines went away.

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Regards,
Mike
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Andreas Prilop - 27 Jul 2009 16:06 GMT

> He was using the Tahoma font, which apparently came from Microsoft
> (via MS Office installation). When he switched the font to something more
> standard, the "squares" at the end of lines went away.

Apple's TrueType specifications require that fonts have a zero-width
glyph for the carriage return character (13 = x0D). The Windows fonts
are missed this.

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