I cannot type in a message with koi8. An attempt to change encoding does not change the font.
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: thunderbird
It appeared when I switched from xfce to gnome, but acts even when I work under xfce.
I came accross this ugly behavior of thunderbird and other programs like gvim under gnome
several times, under debian.
I just want to be able to use any font, whatever I like at the moment, which is installed on the system. I feel deeply insulted when the system pretends to know better which fonts are
to be used.
This is Ubuntu 7.10,
"apt-cache policy thunderbird" gives the following message:
Installed: 2.0.0.8~
Candidate: 2.0.0.12+
Version table:
2.
500 http://
500 http://
*** 2.0.0.8~
100 /var/lib/
2.
500 http://
I expect that when composing message I chose koi8r encoding and type in
using koi8r keybord, I would see cyrillic letters, but instead I see something like this:
ÆÙ×ÁÐ.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Mar 24 15:46:05 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: mozilla-thunderbird 2.0.0.8~
PackageArchitec
SourcePackage: thunderbird
Uname: Linux fujiboo 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Fri Feb 1 04:59:50 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
Is this symptom still reproducible in 8.10 or 9.04? Have you tried a snapshot of TB 3.0?