From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2018 20:40:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <79ed1db7-47cc-e2fd-7178-0a6b81ab94e7@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5b8eccee.1c69fb81.12eaa.84a2@mx.google.com>
On 2018-09-04 12:20, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 16:18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> My vote is against the patch because the nodef glyph will often be just blank
>> space which is certainly worse than â.
Not according to the sample below: you would have to know that medium shade
means unavailable.
>> If conhost does not provide a reasonable way to enquire 0xFFFD availability
>> it's conhost's fault, not cygwin's so why should cygwin implement a bad
>> compromise. If conhost ever improves, cygwin can adapt.
> This is some dangerous commentary. I would like to counter it now with some
> actual research. Using BabelMap:
> http://babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html
> You can do "Fonts", "Font Coverage" and you will get this result with code point
> FFFD:
> Â Â yes: DejaVu Sans Mono
> Â Â no:
> Â Â - Consolas
> Â Â - Courier New
> Â Â - Lucida Console
> Â Â - MS Gothic
> Â Â - NSimSun
> Â Â - SimSun-ExtB
> This is concerning true, but we can then review the ".notdef glyph" for the
> problem fonts. As this glyph is not an actual character, i cant paste it here,
> but i will describe them below:
> Â Â empty rectangle:
> Â Â - Courier New
> Â Â - Lucida Console
> Â Â - MS Gothic
> Â Â - SimSun-ExtB
> Â Â rectangle with a question mark inside: Consolas
These are both recommended .notdef glyphs.
> Â Â none: NSimSun
Valid OTF and TTF fonts must have a glyph with index entry 0 used for .notdef.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-04 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-01 16:13 Steven Penny
2018-09-01 18:11 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-01 18:46 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-01 21:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-01 19:40 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-01 21:50 ` Doug Henderson
2018-09-01 22:49 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-02 8:07 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-02 12:51 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-03 12:46 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 14:59 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 16:34 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 17:17 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 17:56 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 18:20 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 19:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 20:27 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 20:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-03 21:03 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-03 22:15 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 6:06 ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-04 9:00 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-04 11:40 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-05 7:55 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05 9:22 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-05 11:58 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-05 13:18 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-09-05 15:20 ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-05 15:58 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05 20:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-06 1:35 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-06 7:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 8:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 10:34 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:29 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 11:42 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:51 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-07 11:54 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 16:22 ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-07 16:48 ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-07 17:01 ` Marco Atzeri
2018-09-07 18:21 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-07 18:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-05 13:35 ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-05 14:04 ` Houder
2018-09-05 15:05 ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-04 12:50 ` David Macek
2018-09-04 14:18 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 14:46 ` David Macek
2018-09-04 18:20 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 18:41 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 19:50 ` Andrey Repin
2018-09-04 19:53 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 21:43 ` Thomas Wolff
2018-09-04 23:29 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-04 20:40 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
2018-09-05 8:32 ` Corinna Vinschen
2018-09-04 13:05 ` Andrey Repin
2018-10-04 0:25 ` Steven Penny
2018-09-03 16:05 ` Brian Inglis
2018-09-04 19:59 ` Doug Henderson
2018-09-04 21:05 ` Steven Penny
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