[Tickets #3956] NEW: OCR font used to render text msgs IE6SP1/Win98

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3956
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 Ticket             | 3956
 Created By         | alain at ait.ac.th
 Summary            | OCR font used to render text msgs IE6SP1/Win98
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.0.4
 State              | Unconfirmed
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Bug
 Owners             | 
+New Attachment     | imp-ocr-font.jpg
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alain at ait.ac.th (2006-05-19 01:58) wrote:

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.