By default (AFAIK), Exmh uses the "fixed" font to display messages in the UTF-8 character set.
However, I prefer a nice proportional font for message display; namely MS' "Verdana" font, in bold. Verdana also includes the Unicode glyphset, so it can be used as a UTF-8 display font. In order to do this, I edited '~/.exmh/exmh-defaults' and added these lines:
*mime_utf-8_registry: iso10646 *mime_utf-8_encoding: 1 *mime_utf-8_plain_families: verdana-bold *mime_utf-8_fixed_families: fixed *mime_utf-8_proportional_families: verdana-bold *mime_utf-8_title_families: verdana-bold *Msg*font: -microsoft-verdana-bold-r-normal--12-*-iso8859-1 *Message*font: -microsoft-verdana-bold-r-normal--12-*-iso8859-1 *Text.font: -microsoft-verdana-bold-r-normal--12-*-iso8859-1
Easy!
(--jm at jmason dot org, 31/10/03)