Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and chinese fonts
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:51:04
Message-Id: 4FDF3F99.70806@hadt.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and chinese fonts by Yohan Pereira
1 Am 18.06.2012 16:03, schrieb Yohan Pereira:
2 > On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:01:15PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
3 >> I've been having this problem for a while, but I never bothered to
4 >> really look into it, but now, I want to do something about it.
5 >>
6 >> Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are
7 >> encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks
8 >> rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese characters look
9 >> much better. I attached a screenshot for you to see what I mean.
10 >
11 > Hi,
12 > Haven't used thunderbird or gnome3. Don't know much about emails either.
13 > But I recently started using mutt and hence noticed that the difference between
14 > the 2 messages in your screen-shot is that The OP's mail(the one that looks weird)
15 > contains 2 parts one plain text part and one html part whereas the reply
16 > (which looks normal) has only a plain text part.
17 >
18 > Maybe thunderbird has an option to use a particular font when rendering emails
19 > that contain html?
20 >
21
22 Good idea, but that should not be the issue, because I told Thunderbird
23 to only show plain text messages and not the Html part (in multipart
24 messages)