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Re: Characters in from address not displayed correctly when marked new



On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 08:00:22PM +0100, Toby wrote:
> Martin Swift wrote:
> > When a from address contains a name in non-latin characters, they
> > are
> > not displayed properly if the message is marked as new. If it is
> > marked read or old, the kanji characters are displayed as boxes.
>
> It's a font problem.
> Your bold font doesn't contain the glyphs for that language.

Dead on! Thanks!

> Personally, I don't experience that problem with XTerm and the font
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
> (which is my favorite fixed font :-)

And now mine as well :-)

Cheers,
Martin

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