From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 122520 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2018 16:05:16 -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 122501 invoked by uid 89); 3 Sep 2018 16:05:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-6.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,GIT_PATCH_1,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=notdef, discretion, Brian, brian X-HELO: smtp-out-no.shaw.ca Received: from smtp-out-no.shaw.ca (HELO smtp-out-no.shaw.ca) (64.59.134.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:05:14 +0000 Received: from [192.168.1.100] ([24.64.240.204]) by shaw.ca with ESMTP id wrLifCj6CWppDwrLjf8fDP; Mon, 03 Sep 2018 10:05:12 -0600 From: Brian Inglis Subject: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character Reply-To: Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <7942b18e-96bf-a824-4dac-82715d87af55@towo.net> <5b8bdcc4.1c69fb81.84d1a.e6b9@mx.google.com> Openpgp: preference=signencrypt Message-ID: <9516e9f0-0d99-764c-bd4f-edc340b09eee@SystematicSw.ab.ca> Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2018 16:05:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <5b8bdcc4.1c69fb81.84d1a.e6b9@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-09/txt/msg00049.txt.bz2 On 2018-09-02 06:51, Steven Penny wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2018 10:07:10, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> Actually, the width problem I suggested in my other response (and even >> referring to the wrong character) does not apply as mintty enforces proper >> width in that case. >> Also, even with fonts that do not provide the glyph, you will usually >> still see it by the Windows font fallback mechanism. >> Shall I make it configurable? > your call - here are the possible resolutions - in order of my preference: What about TTF .notdef glyph index 0? > 1. Change the default to U+FFFD with no option > 2. Change the default to U+FFFD with option to change > 3. Leave default as is with option to change -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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