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On 5/26/2011 8:09 PM, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 5/26/2011 2:09 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On May 26 06:08, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> On 25 May 2011 22:00, Ryan Johnson wrote:
>>>> On 25/05/2011 3:48 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>>> I guess somebody needs to file a bug with fedorahosted.org, but I didn't see
>>>> an obvious way to request an account with them. Do you have one by chance?
>>>
>>> Nope, sorry.
>>>
>>> Clicking at the first hopeful-looking Google result for "Liberation
>>> Mono", I'd downloaded it from a site called dafont.com. Apparently I
>>> picked up an old version without that problem: 1.04.
>>
>> I installed and use 1.06.0.20100721-3 from Fedora 14 without problems.
>
> Ah, but I installed liberation-fonts-ttf-1.06.0.20100721.tar.gz from
> https://fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/, and *DID* see the problem.
> That is, after installation, Liberation Mono did not show up in mintty's
> font selection window.

Here is a data point for 1.05 (albeit for an out-of-date setup):
mintty-0.9.6-1.tar.bz2 on XP SP3
liberation-fonts-ttf-1.05.2.20091227.tar.gz

A text metrics dumper reported Liberation Mono's lfPitchAndFamily 
as 0x32, same as what Ryan reported for version 1.06.

> I'm running Vista natively (no VM), but I haven't rebooted since
> installing the font (if that makes a difference). Double clicking the
> font itself shows that it is version 1.06.

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Cheers,
Kein-Hong Man (esq.)
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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