From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1580 invoked by alias); 20 Sep 2013 17:21:19 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-xfree-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-xfree-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1564 invoked by uid 89); 20 Sep 2013 17:21:18 -0000 Received: from nm7-vm6.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com (HELO nm7-vm6.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com) (212.82.99.222) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:21:18 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=0.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RDNS_NONE autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: nm7-vm6.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com Received: from [212.82.98.45] by nm7.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Sep 2013 17:21:13 -0000 Received: from [46.228.39.173] by tm6.bt.bullet.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Sep 2013 17:21:13 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by smtp114.bt.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 20 Sep 2013 17:21:13 -0000 X-Yahoo-SMTP: u.JgLvyswBBMp9ZJJfsX14qmYb3T2ivhMAr6OupnxLpNQEFZ9g-- X-Rocket-Received: from [192.168.1.72] (jon.turney@86.174.32.97 with plain) by smtp114.bt.mail.ir2.yahoo.com with SMTP; 20 Sep 2013 17:21:13 +0000 UTC Message-ID: <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 17:21:00 -0000 From: Jon TURNEY Reply-To: cygwin-xfree User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com CC: towo@computer.org Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era References: <523C79BE.6070205@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <523C79BE.6070205@computer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00017.txt.bz2 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 ยค 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/ -- Jon TURNEY Volunteer Cygwin/X X Server maintainer -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/