Re: Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

[Brian Inglis <Brian dot Inglis at SystematicSw dot ab dot ca>]

On 2018-09-07 05:54, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Sep  7 13:51, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> On 07.09.2018 13:41, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>> On 07.09.2018 13:29, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Sep  7 12:34, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>>>>> On 07.09.2018 10:17, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>> On Sep  6 09:01, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>> On Sep  5 18:35, Steven Penny wrote:
>>>>>>>> On Wed, 5 Sep 2018 22:14:59, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>>>>>>> OTOH, in my testing this only occurs for DejaVu Sans Mono.  I installed
>>>>>>>>> Liberation Mono and Noto Mono as well and the above problem never occurs
>>>>>>>>> with them.  Weird.  I'm about to let this slip as a font bug.
>>>>>>>> as you prob know ive been testing on W7. i found a W10 virtual machine here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> but it requires 4GB RAM just for the image. since i only have 4GB total on my
>>>>>>>> system the image wont load into virtualbox.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> i can see about upgrading my system - but i wont bother if you are intent on
>>>>>>>> wiping your hands of this anyway
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> let me know - thanks
>>>>>>> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2018-q3/msg00054.html
>>>>>> I created new developer snapshots for testing.  Please give the latest fromhttps://cygwin.com/snapshots/  a try.
>>>>> Consolas: invalid encoding: hollow box, unknown glyph: boxed question mark
>>>>> Lucida Console: invalid encoding: medium shade, unknown glyph: hollow box
>>>>> so far it's fine, but:
>>>>> Raster Fonts: output of invalid encoding hangs cygwin...
>>>>>
>>>>>> This will be my last action for the next 4 weeks though.  I'll be back in October.
>>>>> I'll try to check the code.
>>>> Looks like s/ANSI_CHARSET/DEFAULT_CHARSET/ does the trick
>>> Without this change, lf.lfFaceName is "T" when entering the do...while
>>> loop.
>> No, sorry, it's "Terminal" initially and then shortened down to "T" by one
>> char each in the loop.
>>> What's the purpose of this nested loop (do...while and EnumFontFamilies)
>>> anyway?
> 
> The loop is handling the weird DejaVu Sans Mono behaviour I explained
> in previous mail.
> 
> I uploaded new snapshots to https://cygwin.de/snapshots/

404?

https://cygwin.de/
"Zur Zeit wird die deutsche Homepage Cygwin.de noch nicht weiter betreut."

Try https://cygwin.com/snapshots/

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