From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27153 invoked by alias); 25 May 2011 21:41:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 27145 invoked by uid 22791); 25 May 2011 21:41:29 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from out3.smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out3.smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.27) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 25 May 2011 21:41:15 +0000 Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.nyi.mail.srv.osa [10.202.2.41]) by gateway1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227B2207A4 for ; Wed, 25 May 2011 17:41:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.160]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Wed, 25 May 2011 17:41:15 -0400 Received: from [158.147.67.90] (158-147-67-90.harris.com [158.147.67.90]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C4A594067A9; Wed, 25 May 2011 17:41:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4DDD777A.6010801@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:41:00 -0000 From: Charles Wilson Reply-To: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?) References: <20110523115058.GJ3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDA7E64.3060202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110523160437.GN3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDACA2C.6080201@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDC867B.6040000@cwilson.fastmail.fm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00374.txt.bz2 On 5/25/2011 1:17 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: > Consolas on Windows 7 indeed is much improved. In the original thread over on cygwin-apps, I had written: > Yep, works fine with Lucida Console. I was using Consolas, which IMO > looks better...but yep, it appears to be missing the glyphs -- although > rumor has it that MS added the glyphs in their W7 version of this font. > Since I'm running Vista and XP, well... I probably knew that at one > point. Maybe. I guess I *did* know this at one point: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-10/msg00226.html FWIW, compare the various versions of consolas: 5.00 -- shipped with Vista http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1537 1.00 -- included in the Office 2007 compatibility pack http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466&displaylang=en http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1293 and 5.22, Windows7's version: http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=1723 which is not, AFAICT, available gratis. -- Chuck -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple