[Pan-users] Asian characters - should this work?

[Wolf J. Flywheel]

Hi, all:

        I just stumbled across this one while reading the gentoo-users mailing 
list via gmane.org.  A particular message, which I suppose was posted in 
Korean, displays odd rectangular glyphs instead of what I'd expect -- not 
that the Korean characters would make any more sense to me!  :)

        The Message-ID of the post is <address@hidden>.  
The URL for Gmane's WWW view of this message is 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/33558

        I ask merely out of curiosity:  Is this merely Gtk2's way of saying to 
me, "Hey, your current font is not capable of showing these Unicode 
characters!" ...?  Would it work if I *did* have some font or other 
available for Korean?
        (FWIW, various Japanese, Chinese, and Korean spam I've received *does* 
display the Asian characters in the Subject header, using KMail.  
Sometimes the body text also shows up.  However, trying to print any of 
it results in garbled ASCII stuff.)

        I've attached a small (6 kB) clip to show what I mean.  It's 
interesting 
to see what *other* people's mailers and newsreaders did to the 
characters, too!
        My viewpoint is that, if something is in Russian, Arabic, Korean, Thai, 
or Vulcan, I'd still like to see it look the way it should -- even though 
I can't read it.  :)  

        Any ideas?

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