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Thunderbird and Unicode Font Display

Thursday, April 14th, 2005

For a while now I was bothered by the different font in Thunderbird in Unicode encoded messages. Today I happened to be browsing through the configuration (using the about:config extension) and came across them.

The following configuration entries should be changed to fix this:

  • Change font.name.<font-type>.x-unicode (where font-type is the type you use (being one of monospace, sans-serif or serif)) to the font name you use. You can look up the value at font.name.<font-type>.x-western.
  • There is also the values: font.name.cursive.x-unicode and font.name.fantasy.x-unicode (no idea what they are for).
  • The size of the font is also defined in another place: change the following values for that: font.size.variable.x-unicode and font.size.fixed.x-unicode to match their x-western partners.

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