Re: [tlug] How to get sylpheed to display Japanese? - SOLVED

[Stuart Luppescu <s-luppescu@example.com>]

On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 20:20, scott wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 11:06:09 +0900
> Keith Watanabe <keith.y.watanabe@example.com> wrote:
> 
> > > After losing the ability to view email in Japanese by upgrading
> > > evolution to 1.2, I decided to use Sylpheed for Japanese email. I
> > > emerged sylpheed 0.8.8, but was quite surprised to find that Japanese
> > > text is not rendered -- all I get is dollar signs and miscellaneous
> > > characters. (One weird thing is that the Subject: line displays
> > > correctly but the body doesn't.) 
> 
> Note my earlier email---do emerge rsync sylpheed--0.8.9 seems to have fixed it. 

I tried this (and had to do ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" for 0.8.9) but I
still had the same results. HOWEVER, I found the problem: my font was
set to -sony-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-c-*-jisx0201.1976-0. This
did not work. When I changed it to
-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-*-130-*-*-c-*-jisx0208.1983-0
everything displayed correctly. 

Thanks to everyone for the help.
-- 
Stuart Luppescu -=- s-luppescu@example.com        
University of Chicago -=- CCSR 
才文と智奈美の父 -=-    Kernel 2.4.19-xfs-r2                
Heisengberg might have been here.

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