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[#3956] OCR font used to render text msgs IE6SP1/Win98
Summary OCR font used to render text msgs IE6SP1/Win98
Queue IMP
Queue Version 4.0.4
Type Bug
State Not A Bug
Priority 1. Low
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Requester alain (at) ait (dot) ac (dot) th
Created 05/19/2006 (6963 days ago)
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Updated 05/19/2006 (6963 days ago)
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Resolved 05/19/2006 (6963 days ago)
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05/19/2006 09:20:42 AM Jan Schneider Comment #2
State ⇒ Not A Bug
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It is not IMP's fault if the browser chooses to display this weird 
font if we request a "monospace,fixed" font family.
05/19/2006 08:58:16 AM alain (at) ait (dot) ac (dot) th Comment #1
State ⇒ Unconfirmed
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
Type ⇒ Bug
Summary ⇒ OCR font used to render text msgs IE6SP1/Win98
Queue ⇒ IMP
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Since IMP 3.x, when opening a plaintext message in IMP from IE6 on 
Windows 98 (presumably anything pre-2K), the message is displayed 
using an ugly OCR font (see attached screenshot).

This doesn't happen when using IE6 from Win2K/XP or when using another 
browser on Win98 (e.g. Mozilla).

It happens both win Win98 Thai and Win98 US.

I have been told that the same problem happens when using the latest 
stable IMP and

other language versions of Win98.

I can provide more information or network traffic dumps if needed.

I had encountered this problem in IMP 3.x and I had "fixed" that

by changing one line in <Horde root>/lib/Lang.php:



header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=' . $charset);

changed to:

header('Content-Type: text/html');



I haven't found any similar hack for IMP 4.x.

The work-around is to check "Ignore font styles specified on web pages"

in Tools->Internet Options->Accessibility in IE.



This seem to be related to a problem I also see rendering Thai language

messages with the proper font and script, but I will investigate this 
further and open a separate bug report if required.

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