X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:date:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s=default; b=gQrNhdLNUDqN2o/0 8JVeL7KZN4wN7dvUP3Jq0ewcpcDRWvsZNtqyI9a37UrE++/vQTn77jR0bSOt+ySe 31VGhiP1Hs+bD8J1X6j57gMIzfuhQlIP/KJXMWKQdmzeGO46O9oHelXPqEcGuos+ EEIWR0Lh++ZVfwd4NYojJ6OT8zU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:to:from:subject:date:message-id:references :mime-version:content-type; s=default; bh=y+zYin0zdnpt+5ReLKyVOo LBO/I=; b=GE0kZSHs7mIsFDpDeLGVacLaSm3We0zmtsnFOOqie5OuJFJ0Lv0BDG azA1hmqbWmJQBpDHnjjUCKIqmqreRUWB3PNdqTpZLRlo7Tm738v37OtXCQ7aw6gS XCDH0ypM50BOAXaXEirtvmMqlBqVPZo2j2rrz6mjAWMYXjdyw5M2s= 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 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,LIKELY_SPAM_SUBJECT,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: plane.gmane.org To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: Sebastien Vauban Subject: Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 12:21:56 +0200 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <867g1atq2j.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <868um0dgfp DOT fsf AT somewhere DOT org> <54108F3C DOT 5010103 AT cornell DOT edu> <86a966bn5v DOT fsf AT somewhere DOT org> <87bnqmy0b4 DOT fsf AT Rainer DOT invalid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Url: Under construction... X-Archive: encrypt User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (windows-nt) X-IsSubscribed: yes Achim Gratz wrote: > Sebastien Vauban writes: >> The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to >> Emacs. >> >> But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same >> range of characters in both worlds? > > You seem to assume that those fonts define that particular glyph. Yes, I was. > Both fonts you use as an example exist in multiple versions with > differing UTF-8 support. If they don't have that glyph (which is > likely, given the results you report), then Emacs would try to get it > from another font with the same dimensions (I don't know if mintty > does font substitution and if so, how) and the results very much > depend on the font maps used. I didn't know about that mechanism. But, then, the question is: why does Windows Emacs find a substitution, and not Cygwin Emacs (for the same font)? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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