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On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:54:14 +0200 |
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Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz> wrote: |
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> Am 18.06.2012 16:15, schrieb walt: |
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> > On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: |
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> >> Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that |
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> >> are encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the |
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> >> font looks rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese |
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> >> characters look much better. I attached a screenshot for you to |
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> >> see what I mean. |
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> > I've never noticed until now that in the tb preferences dialog, in |
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> > the Display tab, there is an 'Advanced' button next to 'Fonts'. |
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> > That Advanced dialog offers to let you select different fonts for |
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> > 'Western', 'Japanese', 'Chinese', etc. You might try changing some |
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> > of those settings as an experiment. |
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> Dead on! Never saw that tiny button! Just changed the font from 'Sans |
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> Serif' to 'DejaVu Sans' for all 3 chinese languages, and now |
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> everything looks perfectly fine. |
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Sans Serif is not a real font, it's usually a symlink. Same with Serif |
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and Monospace. They are supposed to be generic things where you can |
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specify the default font you like of those three types. |
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Your Sans Serif is apparently not set, it's using what looks like |
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Helvetica (yuck). Use font-config to set it to DejaVu Sans instead (or |
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nay other decent font of your liking) and things like this won;t happen |
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anywhere else on your box. |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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