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Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)
- From: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 11:26:39 -0400
- Subject: Re: setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)
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- Reply-to: Charles Wilson <cygwin at cwilson dot fastmail dot fm>
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.
> Consolas on Windows 7 indeed is much improved.
Looks that way.
--
Chuck
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