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Mintty fails to render 3 byte UTF-8 on Windows 7
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 20:18:08 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Mintty fails to render 3 byte UTF-8 on Windows 7
tested with Windows 7 and Windows 8.1.
Test A
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install: usr/share/fonts/noto/NotoSansMyanmar-Regular.ttf
from: noto-myanmar-fonts
Link font (need relog after):
set 'HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink'
reg add "$1" /t REG_MULTI_SZ /v Consolas /d NotoSansMyanmar-Regular.ttf
test.txt:
U+1000 MYANMAR LETTER KA
[က]
Set font for cmd.exe to Consolas and test:
chcp 65001
type test.txt
Test B
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set font for mintty.exe to Consolas and test:
chcp.com 65001
cat test.txt
Results
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Both tests pass with Windows 8.1. With Windows 7, only the cmd.exe test will
pass. I am of the position that if cmd.exe passes on Windows 7, then mintty
should as well.
References
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- http://developer.microsoft.com/microsoft-edge/tools/vms
- http://docs.microsoft.com/globalization/input/font-technology
- http://fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1000/index.htm
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