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From: Michael Hampicke <gentoo-user@××××.biz>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:57:48
Message-Id: 4FDF4116.1020601@hadt.biz
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts by walt
1 Am 18.06.2012 16:15, schrieb walt:
2 > On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote:
3 >> Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are
4 >> encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks
5 >> rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese characters look
6 >> much better. I attached a screenshot for you to see what I mean.
7 >
8 > I've never noticed until now that in the tb preferences dialog, in
9 > the Display tab, there is an 'Advanced' button next to 'Fonts'.
10 >
11 > That Advanced dialog offers to let you select different fonts for
12 > 'Western', 'Japanese', 'Chinese', etc. You might try changing some
13 > of those settings as an experiment.
14 >
15
16 Dead on! Never saw that tiny button! Just changed the font from 'Sans
17 Serif' to 'DejaVu Sans' for all 3 chinese languages, and now everything
18 looks perfectly fine.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>