# Any suggestions for getting my boldface back?

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**Created:** [July 6, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-for-getting-my-boldface-back/24770 "2000-07-06T17:21:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 6, 2000, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-suggestions-for-getting-my-boldface-back/24770/1 "2000-07-06T17:21:39Z")

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OK, this hasn’t exactly been a burning issue for me, but it is starting to get a wee bit annoying.

After the SDMB was upgraded to vB, I was no longer able to see boldfaced items in the regular text of a posting - items that are supposed to be boldfaced appear in a slightly larger font than the rest of the text, but in regular line weight.

Since I’m on a G4, I have the character set in Netscape 4.7 set to Western (MacRoman), which worked just fine with UBB. I’ve tried changing to other character sets; the only ones that show bolding properly are Unicode (UTF-8) and Unicode (UTF-7), which have the unfortunate effect of completely changing the font to Times Roman and about 6 pt-size (much harder to read than the Geneva font I prefer for reading this board).

Anyone have any suggestions for how I might fix things?

Many thanks!