290443 - Unicode is rendered in other font than in preferences

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Jeroen van der Ham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050317 Firefox/1.0.2

Thunderbird displays messages in UTF-8 in a different font than the user has
specified in his preferences.

Solution is specified on:
http://www.je-ju.net/~jeroen/blog/2005/04/14#ThunderbirdUnicode

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Change default display font to something else.
2. Open a message encoded (partly) in UTF-8
3. 

Actual Results:  
Text encoded in UTF-8 is displayed in another font.

Expected Results:  
The text encoded should be in the font the user specified.

Comment 1

[Martey Dodoo]

I also had this problem, but realized that changing the "Fonts" tab of the
Option dialog will allow you to configure the properties of fonts used in
Unicode messages. Instead of "Western" in the "Fonts for:" combo box, select
"Unicode" and change the font properties. The "solution" you propose simply does
the same thing manually, so this bug's status should probably change.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.

Comment 4

[Jesse Glick]

In fact duplicate of bug #270287, but I cannot change it.