X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4AC50720.1060801@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:46:40 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin-xfree AT cygwin DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fc-list does not list windows system fonts under cygwin References: <4AC4E904 DOT 9040404 AT cornell DOT edu> <4AC4FF81 DOT 4070308 AT dronecode DOT org DOT uk> In-Reply-To: <4AC4FF81.4070308@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam 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 -- 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