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Re: Is it possible to display English phonetic alphabet in Mintty?
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: Rexdf <weiyong dot mao at gmail dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2015 22:22:26 +0300
- Subject: Re: Is it possible to display English phonetic alphabet in Mintty?
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Greetings, Rexdf!
>>> I have a dictionary in cygwin. It cannot display the phonetic alphabet well.
>>
>> What are your LANG, LANGUAGE, LC_* variables? I see boxes when I set LANG="en_US", but not when I set LANG="en_US.UTF-8" or empty LANG.
>>
> My LANG is zh_CN.UTF-8@cjknarrow.
> The mail list or gmail change my phonetic alphabet to something strange.
> copy it from http://www.bing.com/dict/search?q=diverge
> paste it into notpad.exe, it display very well. And mintty cannot.
mintty just display selected fornt code points.
If your chosen font doesn't have the respective code points... go figure.
Try http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Download
I prefer it over many terminal fonts available.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Monday, April 20, 2015 22:11:35
Sorry for my terrible english...
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