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Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news at mygooglest dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 16:30:43 +0400
- Subject: Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs
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Greetings, Sebastien Vauban!
>>> 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)?
Because of different substitution mechanics.
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WBR,
Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@yandex.ru) 11.09.2014, <16:30>
Sorry for my terrible english...
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