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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:46:40 -0400
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On 10/1/2009 3:14 PM, Jon TURNEY wrote:
> On 01/10/2009 18:38, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 10/1/2009 10:49 AM, Steven Woody wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I am using tex-live under a cygwin system. I found the 'fc-list'
>>> command can not list fonts in system font directory
>>> 'c:\windows\fonts'. I remembered it can do this before I reinstalled
>>> my whole system). What's wrong with it?
> 
> It's not working!
> 
> I think this only recently started working in some limited circumstances
> (See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-09/msg00010.html), and there 
> isn't enough version information in OP to determine if it should work or 
> not :-)
> 
>> I'm cc-ing the cygwin-xfree list, which is where I think fontconfig
>> questions belong. I can confirm that on my system, fc-list produces
>> strange output on the windows system fonts. I'm not sure if it's the
>> same problem you were reporting.
> 
>> For example, I get the following in a mintty window under cygwin 1.7:
>>
>> $ fc-list|grep -i micro
>> Microsoft Sans
>> Serif:style=Regular,Normal,obyÄejné,Standard,Îανονικά,Normaali,Normál,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,ÐбÑÑнÑй,Normálne,Navadno,Arrunta 
>>
> 
> These come out as (what I guess are) translations of "Normal" for me, so 
> I guess, yes, wrong charset or encoding :-)

But is fc-list really supposed to show all these translations?  I never 
saw that in older versions of fontconfig, which didn't include the 
Windows font directory.

Ken

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