[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45

[Yaakov (Cygwin/X)]

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Thomas Wolff wrote:
> Now that cygwin supports UTF-8 in a standard fashion, I think it's time 
> to also add Unicode fonts to the Cygwin/X distribution. Otherwise the 
> additional value of running xterm or rxvt in UTF-8 mode is quite limited.
> 
> I would be willing to provide the Unicode versions of the standard 
> "misc-fixed" fonts (source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html) 
> as a package maintainer, if that's accepted.
> (I would appreciate some positive feedback before taking the effort 
> to prepare the package.)

1) Do any major Linux distros package these fonts?  I can't find such a
package in Gentoo or Debian.

2) Many of these fonts collide with those provided by X.Org.  How would
you intend to deal with this?


Yaakov
Cygwin/X
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