[lug] Fixed-width fonts for email?
Robert George Mayer
mayer at acm.org
Fri Dec 5 09:40:05 MST 2008
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Jeffrey Haemer wrote:
> Do you still use fixed-width fonts to read email?
>
> I occasionally get email that contains ASCII graphics. That won't work as
> intended in my typical mail client (Gmail). My early email clients (mail,
> Mail, mailx, ...) were fixed-width, but those haven't been my primary
> clients for years.
>
> The Dan Rather/CBS News forgeries suggest that even by 2004, most
> non-technical people were unaware that fixed-width fonts had ever existed.
> We geeks, however, still use them daily for programming.
>
> So, how about it? Does your default mail reader still format the box,
> below, as a box, with nice, lined-up edges and corners? Just curious.
>
> +----------------+
>
> | THIS IS A BOX. |
>
> +----------------+
>
> (And yes, I know I *could* make Gmail use fixed-width fonts.)
________________________________________
/ I use KMail - it can be configured for \
\ fixed-width fonts. /
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\ ^__^
\ (oo)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
||----w |
|| ||
( Without fixed-wdith fonts, essential )
( programs such as cowsay and cowthink )
( would be useless. )
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o ^__^
o (xx)\_______
(__)\ )\/\
U ||----w |
|| ||
- BOB
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