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List:       cygwin-xfree
Subject:    Re: [1.7] Updated: cygwin-1.7.0-45
From:       Jon TURNEY <jon.turney () dronecode ! org ! uk>
Date:       2009-05-13 20:19:04
Message-ID: 4A0B2B38.7080908 () dronecode ! org ! uk
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Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote:
> Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Now that cygwin supports UTF-8 in a standard fashion, I think it's time 
>> to also add Unicode fonts to the Cygwin/X distribution. Otherwise the 
>> additional value of running xterm or rxvt in UTF-8 mode is quite limited.
>>
>> I would be willing to provide the Unicode versions of the standard 
>> "misc-fixed" fonts (source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html) 
>> as a package maintainer, if that's accepted.
>> (I would appreciate some positive feedback before taking the effort 
>> to prepare the package.)
> 
> 1) Do any major Linux distros package these fonts?  I can't find such a
> package in Gentoo or Debian.
> 
> 2) Many of these fonts collide with those provided by X.Org.  How would
> you intend to deal with this?

I think these are non-issues.  Markus Kuhn's updated fonts have been 
incorporated into X.Org for some time, so unicode fonts with an extended range 
of glyphs are installed on your hard disk right now :-)

Or at least, 'xlsfonts  | grep iso10646-1' shows a number of fonts for me.


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