Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and chinese fonts

[Yohan Pereira <yohan.pereira@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 01:01:15PM +0200, Michael Hampicke wrote:
> I've been having this problem for a while, but I never bothered to
> really look into it, but now, I want to do something about it.
> 
> Thing is, when I view messages in Thunderbird - I use TB13 - that are
> encoded in GB2312 and have chinese characters in them, the font looks
> rather ugly. Unicode messages with or without chinese characters look
> much better. I attached a screenshot for you to see what I mean.

Hi,
  Haven't used thunderbird or gnome3. Don't know much about emails either.
But I recently started using mutt and hence noticed that the difference between
the 2 messages in your screen-shot is that The OP's mail(the one that looks weird) 
contains 2 parts one plain text part and one html part whereas the reply 
(which looks normal) has only a plain text part. 

Maybe thunderbird has an option to use a particular font when rendering emails 
that contain html? 

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- Yohan Pereira

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