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#1 2016-06-26 15:48:29

AquaSZS
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Registered: 2016-06-26
Posts: 23

Thunderbird UI ignoring fontconfig fallback preferences

I read Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) often on Firefox and Thunderbird. Unfortunately, without any configuration, both applications use suboptimal fonts as fallbacks for CJK.

Following https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … r_with_X11, I managed to set up proper fallbacks for fonts both applications use: serif, sans-serif (also known as Sans), and monospace.

Firefox follows my fontconfig fallback preferences and looks fine now. However, Thunderbird still uses the ugly default fallbacks. Does anyone know why?


Yes, I am aware that I can easily define userChrome.css for Thunderbird with my preferred font and move on. I just want to learn why only Thunderbird ignores fontconfig while all my other applications behave as expected.

I have tried both $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/fontconfig/fonts.conf and /etc/fonts/local.conf

Last edited by AquaSZS (2016-06-26 15:55:53)

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