X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <4DDD1FAF.9020804@cwilson.fastmail.fm> References: <20110523115058.GJ3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDA7E64.3060202@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <20110523160437.GN3051@calimero.vinschen.de> <4DDACA2C.6080201@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDC867B.6040000@cwilson.fastmail.fm> <4DDD1FAF.9020804@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:52:34 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?) From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 On 25 May 2011 16:26, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 5/25/2011 1:17 AM, Andy Koppe wrote: >> On 25 May 2011 05:32, Charles Wilson wrote: >>>> Maybe when I get home I'll test out a few... >>>> >>>> Consolas >>>> Andale Mono >>>> Courier New >>>> Lucida Console >>>> Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu LGC Sans) >>>> Droid Sans Mono >>>> Inconsolata >>>> ... >>> >>> FYI: >>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/ >> >> Good work. >> >> What mintty version is that though? It seems to be missing the >> fallback scheme to (rough) ASCII equivalents for the VT100 graphics >> characters. > > mintty-0.9.8-1 > > The difference MAY be that I didn't actually cat xgraphics each time > after changing the font. =C2=A0I merely changed the font, while the earli= er > xgraphics result was viewable in the terminal. =C2=A0If the fallback sche= me > relies on actually changing the internally-stored character code, rather > than changing which glyph is used to draw that character, then my > technique would bypass the fallback. Yep, that explains it. 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