From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2018 16:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a981508d-178d-3b18-668c-a10e87e1163c@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180907115449.GU6350@calimero.vinschen.de>
On 2018-09-07 05:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep 7 13:51, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> On 07.09.2018 13:41, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> On 07.09.2018 13:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Sep 7 12:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> On 07.09.2018 10:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>> On Sep 6 09:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sep 5 18:35, Steven Penny wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 22:14:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>>>> OTOH, in my testing this only occurs for DejaVu Sans Mono. I installed
>>>>>>>>> Liberation Mono and Noto Mono as well and the above problem never occurs
>>>>>>>>> with them. Weird. I'm about to let this slip as a font bug.
>>>>>>>> as you prob know ive been testing on W7. i found a W10 virtual machine here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but it requires 4GB RAM just for the image. since i only have 4GB total on my
>>>>>>>> system the image wont load into virtualbox.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i can see about upgrading my system - but i wont bother if you are intent on
>>>>>>>> wiping your hands of this anyway
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> let me know - thanks
>>>>>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2018-q3/msg00054.html
>>>>>> I created new developer snapshots for testing. Please give the latest fromhttps://cygwin.com/snapshots/ a try.
>>>>> Consolas: invalid encoding: hollow box, unknown glyph: boxed question mark
>>>>> Lucida Console: invalid encoding: medium shade, unknown glyph: hollow box
>>>>> so far it's fine, but:
>>>>> Raster Fonts: output of invalid encoding hangs cygwin...
>>>>>
>>>>>> This will be my last action for the next 4 weeks though. I'll be back in October.
>>>>> I'll try to check the code.
>>>> Looks like s/ANSI_CHARSET/DEFAULT_CHARSET/ does the trick
>>> Without this change, lf.lfFaceName is "T" when entering the do...while
>>> loop.
>> No, sorry, it's "Terminal" initially and then shortened down to "T" by one
>> char each in the loop.
>>> What's the purpose of this nested loop (do...while and EnumFontFamilies)
>>> anyway?
>
> The loop is handling the weird DejaVu Sans Mono behaviour I explained
> in previous mail.
>
> I uploaded new snapshots to https://cygwin.de/snapshots/
404?
https://cygwin.de/
"Zur Zeit wird die deutsche Homepage Cygwin.de noch nicht weiter betreut."
Try https://cygwin.com/snapshots/
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-09-07 16:22 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 [this message]
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
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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