[1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45
Jon TURNEY
jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Wed May 13 20:19:00 GMT 2009
Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> 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?
I think these are non-issues. Markus Kuhn's updated fonts have been
incorporated into X.Org for some time, so unicode fonts with an extended range
of glyphs are installed on your hard disk right now :-)
Or at least, 'xlsfonts | grep iso10646-1' shows a number of fonts for me.
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