528181 - Thunderbird not honoring character encoding; fonts not rendered properly in unicode.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[strange_cathect]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091109 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Firefox/3.5.5
Build Identifier: 

I have set Thunderbird to encode all emails (in and out) in Western (Iso-8859-1). I have done so because Unicode is not honoring my font settings (all in Georgia) and the font which does appear is virtually unreadable.  

However, after setting my encoding and fonts in Western, Thunderbird still allows the receipt of Unicode encoded email and the font rendering is lost.

I am using Ubuntu Karmic and the Thunderbird package from the repositories.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[strange_cathect]

Attachment: This is how the Georgia font is being rendered at present.

Comment 2

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

what version of tb is this ?

Comment 3

[strange_cathect]

Sorry, It is version 2.0.023. It is in the Ubuntu repositories.

Comment 4

[u41494]

I think that your problem may be this: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91190#c47
Cit: To change UTF-8 fonts in Thunderbird set fonts for "Other Languages".

Comment 5

[[:Aureliano Buendía]]

strange_cathect do you have make the change in comment #4? This resolve your problem?

Comment 6

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to last question. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.