Code appearing badly in IE9?

[Brumi]

I've upgraded to Windows 7 recently, and for some reason code parts in the posts are quite ugly using IE9.

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Am I doing something wrong or is it a compatibility issue?

[Jacko]

why are you using IE in the first place?
Firefox is where its at

But seriously I don't know, best to look in the settings n stuff

[orudge]

How odd. Code blocks are designed to use the following fonts/font families: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif;

Do you have something overriding your fonts, perhaps? Have you somehow deleted Courier and Courier New, and your browser is picking what looks like an East Asian font used for Western text?

[Brumi]

I would never delete Courier New, it's my favourite font

Code blocks appear OK using the prosilver or subsilver theme, and they also appear correctly on some other phpBB-based forums I checked. They also appear perfectly using Opera.

After some googling, I found this:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums ... 2e8b8c1c1/
It seems that IE9 has a problem.

[FooBar]

Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif;

I'd swap the first two. Courier New is the preferred font if available, as on Windows it's a true type font, while plain Courier is one of these antique things only available in certain sizes, rendered badly in other sizes that are not predefined.

[Auge]

Hello

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font-family: Courier, 'Courier New', sans-serif;

The matching family for the fonts Courier and Courier New is monospace instead sans-serif. Last one is shown on the screenshot. And, as FooBar said, Courier is outdated (to say it in a polite way ).

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font-family: 'Courier New', {maybe}Courier,{/maybe} monospace;

Tschö, Auge

[orudge]

Well, quite. I'm not sure why sans-serif was chosen, it seems to have been a phpBB decision many years ago. I'll make the changes when I have some time(!)