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Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs
- From: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news at mygooglest dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 17:03:21 +0200
- Subject: Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs
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Hello,
Ken Brown wrote:
> On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
>> As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of
>> Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing
>> triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts:
>>
>> - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts,
>>
>> - Cygwin Emacs can't display it with Consolas, Courier New and Lucida
>> (among others).
>>
>> MWE:
>>
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; these fonts only display (special?) UTF-8 chars (here: the white
>> ;; right-pointing triangle) in win32 binary of Emacs
>>
>> (modify-all-frames-parameters '((font . "Consolas-10")))
>> (char-displayable-p ?\u25B7)
>>
>> (modify-all-frames-parameters '((font . "Courier New-9")))
>> (char-displayable-p ?\u25B7)
>>
>> (modify-all-frames-parameters '((font . "Lucida Console-9")))
>> (char-displayable-p ?\u25B7)
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>>
>> Any idea why such differences?
>
> I'm on vacation, but I'll look into this next week when I get back. In the
> meantime, could you say which version of Cygwin emacs you're using? Is it
> emacs-X11 or emacs-w32?
Yes, I'm using Cygwin Emacs w32.
Best regards,
Seb
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