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 1SgdIG-0001ze-Dl for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:51:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15A8BE073C; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:50:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx1.hadt.biz (sil.hadt.biz [5.9.16.100]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD98AE058A for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 14:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.255.100] (p5B3401CB.dip.t-dialin.net [91.52.1.203]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.hadt.biz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id BB50040010 for ; Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:47:53 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4FDF3F99.70806@hadt.biz> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:47:53 +0200 From: Michael Hampicke User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120609 Thunderbird/13.0 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Thunderbird and chinese fonts References: <4FDF0A7B.3010404@gmail.com> <20120618140311.GA4081@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120618140311.GA4081@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ad266230-12b5-46de-a444-17e1f096dcdc X-Archives-Hash: 4798e7c5034afc43f7f5809363b2573a Am 18.06.2012 16:03, schrieb Yohan Pereira: > 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? > Good idea, but that should not be the issue, because I told Thunderbird to only show plain text messages and not the Html part (in multipart messages)