From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SgkEd-0002sc-GD for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:15:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D8C82E072D; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DB24E062B for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:13:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhn14 with SMTP id hn14so1920318wib.10 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=sShaWROqheIs1PUFtJw/upcQ1ZW+Nsedku1aWqRhmWI=; b=HzYUibEOaS8uN3p6yUxmJQI89lYt2nn5xNng0LonBTndYWUTC5ro4asdZDl1+izshd MPqDWsR3CDsGcm0xW50/pOSHJ2FBjTDDwCewZYqywKDrM3EoXnKrzSJyINtZxU+GMq21 zbxICcr8lJAfk2cklMByqyTvRL8JXlesjVuIN2Nw+xbxJVzXsWxnZfbpWd+50kku7xP1 X3cgZiVZjJFd/LxAIy8bS22wIAjFvnQXTPnxnh6L7B4lp95yMw4L1Kwl4Gd0N+m4YCOE BKZKDPfWSvs8uYz/CkAMKjtfMm5x8rewBHY7Fiq3bmM9Nx+9oG7TCwnUfHnaM4RYYKO4 myOw== Received: by 10.180.88.194 with SMTP id bi2mr27243328wib.20.1340057633181; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:13:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-215-91-138.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.215.91.138]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id ei4sm50004872wid.5.2012.06.18.15.13.49 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 18 Jun 2012 15:13:51 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:09:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Thunderbird and chinese fonts Message-ID: <20120619000946.0bc7c037@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <4FDF4116.1020601@hadt.biz> References: <4FDF0A7B.3010404@gmail.com> <4FDF4116.1020601@hadt.biz> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 40c14511-b960-498e-8f06-2ace8a61909e X-Archives-Hash: 27f6770c629ff72ef81fe5b569c1d059 On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:54:14 +0200 Michael Hampicke wrote: > > > Am 18.06.2012 16:15, schrieb walt: > > On 06/18/2012 04:01 AM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > >> 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. > > > > I've never noticed until now that in the tb preferences dialog, in > > the Display tab, there is an 'Advanced' button next to 'Fonts'. > > > > That Advanced dialog offers to let you select different fonts for > > 'Western', 'Japanese', 'Chinese', etc. You might try changing some > > of those settings as an experiment. > > > > Dead on! Never saw that tiny button! Just changed the font from 'Sans > Serif' to 'DejaVu Sans' for all 3 chinese languages, and now > everything looks perfectly fine. > Sans Serif is not a real font, it's usually a symlink. Same with Serif and Monospace. They are supposed to be generic things where you can specify the default font you like of those three types. Your Sans Serif is apparently not set, it's using what looks like Helvetica (yuck). Use font-config to set it to DejaVu Sans instead (or nay other decent font of your liking) and things like this won;t happen anywhere else on your box. -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com