[Users] [Bug 3356] characters outside range of the default font may not display at all

[jdebert]

On Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:44:01 +0000
noreply at thewildbeast.co.uk wrote:

> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3356
> 
> --- Comment #1 from Ricardo Mones <mones at users.sourceforge.net> ---
> Created attachment 1464
>   -->
> http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=1464&action=edit
> Test email in current git version
> 
> I've edited the mail you attached to use only serif and I can see the
> Japanese text, as shown in the attached image.
> 
> Not sure what your claim is, but if the receiver has chosen a font
> whose character set cannot display Japanese it's impossible for Claws
> Mail to fix that.
> 

With Linux systems the font manager/font server takes care of this. It
appears that font substitution is not working as expected. Doubt very
much claws-mail has anything at all to do with rendering fonts.

jd