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From: Thomas Wolff <towo@computer.org> To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree@cygwin.com>, Jon TURNEY <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:26:00 -0000 [thread overview] Message-ID: <523DD6A2.9020802@computer.org> (raw) In-Reply-To: <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> Am 20.09.2013 19:21, schrieb Jon TURNEY: > 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]) Looking precisely, they are actually included in the cygwin font-misc-misc package, though in addition to small script-specific old versions. I think the latter should be removed to reduce confusion. > 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) I wonder why the font-alias package creates cyrillic/fonts.alias as the only language-specific subdirectory. The entries font there are ambiguous to those of misc/fonts.alias (with the exception of 9x18 which is not included in the latter). Looks somewhat weird. Also I wonder whether the fonts.alias file shouldn't rather come with each respective package. > $ 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/ > Yes, simply the misc/fonts.alias file should alias 9x18 etc to the proper Unicode version, and the ambiguous entries elsewhere should be removed. -- Thomas -- 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/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-21 17:26 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 2013-09-21 17:26 ` Thomas Wolff [this message] 2013-09-24 18:55 ` Jon TURNEY
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