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.
