X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <200909241513.n8OFDw8i010703@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net> References: <200909161148.n8GBm4ha001469@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net> <20090921163348.GL20981@calimero.vinschen.de> <20090921175759.GM20981@calimero.vinschen.de> <4AB8592F.9060803@lapo.it> <200909241513.n8OFDw8i010703@mail.bln1.bf.nsn-intra.net> Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:33:46 +0100 Message-ID: <416096c60909240833p196ec1der96aad065850d7706@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: non-BMP character width From: "andy.koppe" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 2009/9/24 Thomas Wolff: > I also tried to test eucJP, but that doesn't seem to work at all and mintty crashes... Ouch. Details? > The problem used to be in mintty as well until I pointed it out and > Andy was so ambitious to find a workaround Yep, given a font that actually supports them, e.g. SimSunExtB, non-BMP chars should display correctly in mintty 0.5. > - maybe he could supply a > code snipplet which would fix this in the cygwin console too, despite > the bug origin being in the Windows API... 'fraid not. Mintty uses the Win32 GUI function ExtTextOut to paint characters in its window, and that function does support surrogates. The Cygwin DLL uses WriteConsole, which apparently doesn't support them, and only MS can change that. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple