From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2567 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2013 17:26:04 -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 2554 invoked by uid 89); 21 Sep 2013 17:26:04 -0000 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (HELO moutng.kundenserver.de) (212.227.126.187) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:26:04 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: Yes, score=6.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,HELO_MISC_IP,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_RP_RNBL,RCVD_IN_SEMBLACK,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL,RDNS_DYNAMIC autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: moutng.kundenserver.de Received: from [127.0.0.1] (dslb-088-073-029-160.pools.arcor-ip.net [88.73.29.160]) by mrelayeu.kundenserver.de (node=mreu1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0M9LFi-1VBv932ygY-00CzPW; Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:25:56 +0200 Message-ID: <523DD6A2.9020802@computer.org> Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:26:00 -0000 From: Thomas Wolff User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree , Jon TURNEY Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era References: <523C79BE.6070205@computer.org> <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> X-TagToolbar-Keys: D20130921192554453 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00018.txt.bz2 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 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/ > 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/