X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4DDDAFFF.1020300@cwilson.fastmail.fm> Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 21:42:23 -0400 From: Charles Wilson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin Mailing List Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?) 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> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 5/25/2011 12:52 PM, Andy Koppe wrote: > 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. I merely changed the font, while the earlier >> xgraphics result was viewable in the terminal. If the fallback scheme >> 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. Ok, I redid the screenshots, but this time I made sure to cat the xgraphics file again after changig the font. And, you can see the G0/G1 VT100 line drawing modes, for the less-complete fonts, are getting the ASCII fallbacks. Except for Terminus, for some reason. I also added the Consolas-W7 snap you sent, and a new entry for Liberation Mono. -- Chuck -- 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