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

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http://www.thewildbeast.co.uk/claws-mail/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3356

--- Comment #2 from zorgeloos at xs4all.nl ---
Thanks. 

If Japanese displays correctly at your end with only a serif font defined, I
suppose that might mean that there must be something wrong with my system. It
never occurred to me that that might be the case, because other html displaying
programs can display Japanese with a serif font just fine (I think they depend
on fontconfig and I realize now that claws must do the same, but I don't know
what that exactly means in a technical sense for this problem; perhaps the
error is in my fontconfig?). 

> 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.

My claim was that with only a serif font defined, only the default serif font
of my system seemed to be used for display in claws. And no, my default serif
font does not contain Japanese glyphs; as far as I know it's fontconfig that
provides the fall back to serif fonts that do contain Japanese glyphs; at least
other programs on my system use fontconfig that way. 

As I understood it thus far, a program that uses fontconfig can only fail to
display Japanese, if there is no font containing Japanese glyphs on that system
at all. I've got lots. 

I was also surprised that this line failed: 
body style="font-family: Meiryo,reikofont,serif"   --- does NOT display
Japanese 

I don't have Meiryo, but I do have reikofont (which is a Japanese font). 

Anyway, I'm prepared to accept that somethings wrong with my system (perhaps
there is something wrong with my fonts.conf or something) and that this bug is
bogus. Sorry to have bothered you guys.

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