X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,KHOP_THREADED,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F8CFD5F.4030006@tlinx.org> Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 22:19:27 -0700 From: Linda Walsh User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.24) Gecko/20100228 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.24 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Csaba Raduly , "cygwin@cygwin.com" , magl@safe-mail.net Subject: Re: Glyph substitution References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Csaba Raduly wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 10:00 AM, wrote: >> Glyph substitution doesn't works on cygwin using fontconfig, xft. >> Missing glyphs won't get replaced from ones existing in other fonts. >> Couldn't figure out why. >> Anyone can report, that it should work? > > Xwindow-related questions are better addressed to the cygwin-xfree mailing list. > > Also, "It doesn't work" is not very helpful in diagnosing the problem: > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html#respect --- Expecting the end user to know much more beyond stating the symptoms is like expecting a medical patient to tell the doctor not only their symptoms but also the underlying cause. Not that doctors get it right all the time, and they are paid alot more and they are called professionals, whereas software types don't get anything close to the same respect, but it's still a bit of a stretch to expect a layman to relate much more than symptoms about an illness in their software. I don't know anything about the original poster's post other than what they wrote, but I can attest that glyph substitution doesn't work either. However, I didn't know it was something that was supposed to work. Um... I should follow up about that on the Xlist.. -- 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