From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 51224 invoked by alias); 4 Sep 2018 11:40:23 -0000 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 Received: (qmail 51216 invoked by uid 89); 4 Sep 2018 11:40:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=fan, 2592, H*M:1c69fb81, Hx-languages-length:1127 X-HELO: mail-oi0-f65.google.com Received: from mail-oi0-f65.google.com (HELO mail-oi0-f65.google.com) (209.85.218.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:40:21 +0000 Received: by mail-oi0-f65.google.com with SMTP id l202-v6so6039697oig.7 for ; Tue, 04 Sep 2018 04:40:21 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:references:user-agent; bh=ksbe6Ba/criy/SoAWyVN90X52fEKxa9vSiCqT5KhIcI=; b=oPdTpad7dnptws+R9vOho0sUqIpz0xOL2+FIbM8a4g+/bNEcS/7Y6Fv73tVbr++hu/ CzRMtsnp6PoJS2K57wW1Q3lkNnvm5jTgX44W+C+vJUp/8DE18H0EKwpHsP78mgVjHCdo VUDgaM46yqCeR84FX/mPguiK3wHbzbdbQZDYr4GcF//8FZF8jG9uxLOYgBEOBF9tVj6D TVImkfTB+t3MLdGhhY/gE+jOYHi218VTPhNHl0Tn4O4XmhBUhdxx/MTwu/Aws7iPD2Eb NuRJB9Jwp5X6A5aaSBv0FrqEH3Kpe+hSmWIOq2nqG5I0E8Y8B6rm4LNla+lBfvVmfqFA E3Pg== Return-Path: Received: from 7Qg (cpe-76-182-193-237.tx.res.rr.com. [76.182.193.237]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id z141-v6sm35620485oia.56.2018.09.04.04.40.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 04 Sep 2018 04:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5b8e6f22.1c69fb81.f383.1ac1@mx.google.com> Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 11:40:00 -0000 From: Steven Penny To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character References: <20180904090000.GD6350@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8; format=flowed User-Agent: Tryst/2.8.0 (cup.github.io/tryst) X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00065.txt.bz2 On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 11:00:00, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > Whereever you get DejaVu Sans Mono from. Cygwin provides it via the "dejavu-fonts" package, or you can get it here: http://dejavu-fonts.github.io > My W10 console only allows to specify a handful of fonts, Consolas, Courier > New, Lucida, MS Gothic, NSimSun, Raster Fonts, SimSun-ExtB. You can add DejaVu or others like this: http://superuser.com/questions/390933/add-font-cmd-window-choices/956818 > Yeah, that's it then. Whatever. The fact that none of the default > fonts available for the console provide 0xfffd REPLACEMENT CHARACTER > doesn't really contribute to my willingness to add lots of code for > a border case. > > We either keep 0xfffd now and the user gets the nodef glyph, or I revert > the patch and let the console print 0x2592 MEDIUM SHADE again. > > Decision has to be made today. I will release 2.11.1 tomorrow. I prefer to you keep the patch that has been committed already. I was never a fan of falling back to U+2592, but since we have the code for that now its your call. Cheers -- 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