Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

[Thomas Wolff]

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?


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