From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30469 invoked by alias); 24 Sep 2013 18:55:08 -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 30460 invoked by uid 89); 24 Sep 2013 18:55:08 -0000 Received: from smtpout09.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (HELO smtpout09.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk) (65.20.0.129) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:55:08 +0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_SEMBLACK,RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: smtpout09.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A090204.5241E006.00CE,ss=1,re=0.000,recu=0.000,reip=0.000,cl=1,cld=1,fgs=0 X-Junkmail-Premium-Raw: score=28/97,refid=2.7.2:2013.9.24.124944:17:28.905,ip=86.132.218.72,rules=__MOZILLA_MSGID, __HAS_MSGID, __SANE_MSGID, __HAS_FROM, __HAS_REPLYTO, __USER_AGENT, __MOZILLA_USER_AGENT, __MIME_VERSION, __TO_MALFORMED_2, __BOUNCE_CHALLENGE_SUBJ, __BOUNCE_NDR_SUBJ_EXEMPT, __SUBJ_ALPHA_END, __IN_REP_TO, __CT, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN, __CTE, __ANY_URI, URI_ENDS_IN_HTML, __URI_NO_MAILTO, __CP_URI_IN_BODY, __SUBJ_ALPHA_NEGATE, __FORWARDED_MSG, BODYTEXTP_SIZE_3000_LESS, BODY_SIZE_900_999, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY, RDNS_GENERIC_POOLED, __URI_NS, SXL_IP_DYNAMIC[72.218.132.86.fur], HTML_00_01, HTML_00_10, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP_GENERIC, BODY_SIZE_1000_LESS, RDNS_SUSP, BODY_SIZE_2000_LESS, REPLYTO_FROM_DIFF_ADDY, BODY_SIZE_7000_LESS X-CTCH-Spam: Unknown Received: from [192.168.1.72] (86.132.218.72) by smtpout09.bt.lon5.cpcloud.co.uk (8.6.100.99.10047) (authenticated as jonturney@btinternet.com) id 5240A0790009C6D6; Tue, 24 Sep 2013 19:55:02 +0100 Message-ID: <5241E005.1000208@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 18:55:00 -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 CC: Thomas Wolff Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era References: <523C79BE.6070205@computer.org> <523C840F.6010508@dronecode.org.uk> <523DD6A2.9020802@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <523DD6A2.9020802@computer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2013-09/txt/msg00023.txt.bz2 On 21/09/2013 18:25, Thomas Wolff wrote: > 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. I'm sorry, I don't understand what you are suggesting here. Removing (for example) the ISO8859-1 encoded 9x18 font would seem to be a bad idea, as that will break things for anything which is currently using the font with that encoding? -- 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/