[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.7

[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.9.7

[Thomas Wolff]

I have uploaded mintty 2.9.7 with the following changes:

Highlights (details see below)
   * Significant improvements in bidirectional handling.
   * Text can be selected with the keyboard.
   * Explicit hyperlink attributes.
   * Avoid keyboard/echo latency.

Bidirectional rendering
   * Fixed handling of double-width chars within RTL.
   * Fixed handling of neutral chars in first or last position (UBA rule 
N1).
   * Updated RTL mirroring data, generating them from Unicode.

Terminal features for ECMA-48 and other bidi control
   * Support BDSM control sequence (SM/RM bidirectional support, CSI 8 h/l).
   * Private mode DECSET 2501 for "autodetection of direction" (UBA 
rules P2/P3).
   * Support SCP control sequences (LTR/RTL "Character Path").
   * Private mode DECSET 2500 for "box mirroring".
   * Bidi direction detection on paragraph level (wrapped lines).

Other terminal features
   * Support for OSC 8 hyperlink attribute (~#823).
   * Providing DECTABSR tab stop report.
   * Fixed DECRQM 12 which was inverted.
   * DEC Cyrillic NRCS (xterm 344).

Character rendering
   * Fixed and tweaked wavy underline / undercurl (#847).

Keyboard handling
   * Keyboard selecting mode (#84).
   * Avoid keyboard/echo/display update latency.
   * modifyOtherKeys mode supports control chars in non-Latin keyboard 
layout.
   * Fix modifyOtherKeys mode 1 to support Ctrl+AltGr.

Mouse link hover and click handling
   * Consistent hover highlighting.
   * Overriding modifier is also accepted in non-application mouse mode 
(#694).

Window handling
   * Fixed option --Border=void/frame (#843).
   * Fixed start from shortcut in Windows XP.

Documentation
   * Wiki Tips: note about UTF-8 requirement for emoji support (#842).
   * Fixed description of option HandleDPI (#824, #774, #853).

Configuration
   * Support for Win key modifier for user-defined keys (option 
KeyFunctions).
   * Support for Win key modifier for options ScrollMod and ClickTargetMod.
   * New option HoverTitle.
   * New user-definable function toggle-bidi.
   * Dropping CR from missing option error message.
   * Added FF and ESC to FilterPasteControls characters (xterm 344).

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

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Thomas

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