From: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@Shaw.ca>,
"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: ITP: last-resort-font
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 15:31:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7d7f3a59-86cd-0e10-f617-7ada9535f062@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7249a2f6-62cb-eb20-46ee-cfd5c5376c13@Shaw.ca>
On 12/09/2023 22:21, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I would like to offer the following package on Cygwin:
>
> * last-resort-font 15.100
>
> This package is available in the Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE
> distributions.
>
> It is licensed under SIL OFL-1.1.
>
> It was originally developed by Apple for macOS, modified to work on
> non-Apple systems for Unicode.org, and is updated by Michael Everson of
> Evertype and Unicode.org, and released by Unicode.org in conjunction
> with the standard, which has just been updated to 15.1.
>
> See:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Resort_font
[...]
>
> cygport:
>
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=80da73a6dc50d3997c819ac16132292245bd584a
>
Looks good.
I added this to your packages.
Thanks.
Is there some kind of fontconfig configuration file which could be
included in this package that this would benefit from, causing it to be
used as a glyph fallback font?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-14 14:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-12 21:21 Brian Inglis
2023-09-12 22:44 ` Suggested new Categories: Fonts and Backgrounds or Wallpapers Brian Inglis
2023-09-14 11:32 ` Jon Turney
2023-09-14 14:31 ` Jon Turney
2023-09-15 17:45 ` Brian Inglis
2023-09-13 4:46 ` ITP: last-resort-font Brian Inglis
2023-09-14 14:31 ` Jon Turney [this message]
2023-09-15 19:13 ` Brian Inglis
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