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Re: font-misc-misc out of era
- From: Thomas Wolff <towo at computer dot org>
- To: cygwin-xfree <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>, Jon TURNEY <jon dot turney at dronecode dot org dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 19:25:54 +0200
- Subject: Re: font-misc-misc out of era
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Am 20.09.2013 19:21, schrieb Jon TURNEY:
On 20/09/2013 17:37, Thomas Wolff wrote:
The X fonts in the package font-misc-misc is out-of-era, from ASCII times,
so that e.g. if you start xterm -fn 9x18 you wouldn't even see a Euro sign.
Please replace them with their Unicode versions from
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
Markus Kuhn's X11 unicode bitmap fonts have been included in the upstream
X.Org package for some years (see [1])
Looking precisely, they are actually included in the cygwin
font-misc-misc package, though in addition to small script-specific old
versions. I think the latter should be removed to reduce confusion.
This seems to be an issue with the font specification: "9x18" aliases to
"-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-koi8-r" (which I don't have
installed on my system, and probably doesn't have a euro character)
I wonder why the font-alias package creates cyrillic/fonts.alias as the
only language-specific subdirectory. The entries font there are
ambiguous to those of misc/fonts.alias (with the exception of 9x18 which
is not included in the latter). Looks somewhat weird.
Also I wonder whether the fonts.alias file shouldn't rather come with
each respective package.
$ xterm -fn 9x18
Warning: Cannot convert string "9x18" to type FontStruct
xterm: cannot load font '9x18'
xterm: cannot load font '9x18'
but this works fine:
$ xterm -fn -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90-iso10646-1
and I can type € with no problem.
We probably need to do something more intelligent than just using the upstream
font aliases package verbatim to fix this problem.
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/font/misc-misc/log/
Yes, simply the misc/fonts.alias file should alias 9x18 etc to the
proper Unicode version, and the ambiguous entries elsewhere should be
removed.
--
Thomas
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