Thunderbird fixed font issue with latest fontconfig for dapper update

[Lea Gris]

Hello,

Since last update of fontconfig for Dapper, I encounter monospace font
size and rendering issues I failed solve with Thunderbird.

In thunderbird I read the message in fiwed width font.
Before the update. The default 12px monospace font rendered acceptable
size and thickness.

Since fontconfig update, monospace render too small at its _default_ 12px.

I partially found a solution in going to Edit/Preferences/Display/Fonts
and adjusting the fixed width monodspace font to 14px instead of 12px.

The trouble is, it only affect reading messages in iso-8859-1 and
messages encoded in utf-8 still render at 12px.

I could not find a font size setting for utf-8. The pull-down selector
only list language profiles.

One other problem with this last fontconfig update is: Now the default
font settings for fixed width in Thunderbird and Firefox render too
thin, small and ugly. To the point as I think, dealing with font
rendering and size in Lunux, still is a joke and had too few enhancments
since my 7 years Linux experience.

What could I do to fix this fixed width font rendering issue with utf-8
message in Thunderbird?

How can I expect the system default settings for new accounts get proper
rendering as before the update?

Regards,

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