Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

Thomas Wolff towo@towo.net
Fri Sep 7 11:42:00 GMT 2018


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 from https://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.
What's the purpose of this nested loop (do...while and EnumFontFamilies) 
anyway?
Thomas

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