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From: Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>
To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com
Cc: towo@computer.org
Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:21:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <523C79BE.6070205@computer.org>
On 20/09/2013 17:37, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> The X fonts in the package font-misc-misc is out-of-era, from ASCII times,
> so that e.g. if you start xterm -fn 9x18 you wouldn't even see a Euro sign.
> Please replace them with their Unicode versions from
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
Markus Kuhn's X11 unicode bitmap fonts have been included in the upstream
X.Org package for some years (see [1])
This seems to be an issue with the font specification: "9x18" aliases to
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-koi8-r" (which I don't have
installed on my system, and probably doesn't have a euro character)
$ xterm -fn 9x18
Warning: Cannot convert string "9x18" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font '9x18'
xterm: cannot load font '9x18'
but this works fine:
$ xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
and I can type € with no problem.
We probably need to do something more intelligent than just using the upstream
font aliases package verbatim to fix this problem.
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/misc-misc/log/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-20 17:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 16:37 Thomas Wolff
2013-09-20 17:21 ` Jon TURNEY [this message]
2013-09-21 17:26 ` Thomas Wolff
2013-09-24 18:55 ` Jon TURNEY
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