Install Thunderbird3 and Chinese display settings on Ubuntu

If the Windows version of Thunderbird needs to be upgraded, it is easy to simply check for updates in the Help menu of thunderbird. Open the terminal and enter: 1. sudoadd-apt-repositoryppa: ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa2.sudoapt-getupdate3.sudoapt-getinsta

If you need to upgrade the Windows version of Thunderbird, simply click Update in the Help menu of thunderbird.

Ubuntu is also quite simple. Open the terminal and enter:

1. sudo add-apt-repository ppa: ubuntu-mozilla-daily/ppa

2. sudo apt-get update

3. sudo apt-get install thunderbolt-3.0

After the installation is complete, the Alt-F2 opens the Run window, enter thunderbird-3.0, and then press Enter.

However, 3.0 after the default installation is complete, because locale-zh is not installed (cannot be found in the source), the Chinese emails are not displayed in Chinese encoding by default, so you need to adjust the encoding each time, which is troublesome.

To solve this problem, go to the thunderbird settings page, find: display-fonts-advanced, click the advanced button, and click set as shown in the following figure:

Here I select GB2312 for all codes. You can select GB2312 as needed.

Then, restart thunderbird. By default, all emails sent and received are displayed as GB2312. The Chinese titles with garbled characters are displayed normally.

Learn how to install and display Chinese fonts? I hope this article will be useful to you!