ITP: last-resort-font

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Thu Sep 14 14:31:55 GMT 2023


On 12/09/2023 22:21, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> I would like to offer the following package on Cygwin:
> 
> * last-resort-font    15.100
> 
> This package is available in the Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE
> distributions.
> 
> It is licensed under SIL OFL-1.1.
> 
> It was originally developed by Apple for macOS, modified to work on
> non-Apple systems for Unicode.org, and is updated by Michael Everson of
> Evertype and Unicode.org, and released by Unicode.org in conjunction
> with the standard, which has just been updated to 15.1.
> 
> See:
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Resort_font
[...]
> 
> cygport:
> 
> https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=80da73a6dc50d3997c819ac16132292245bd584a
> 

Looks good.

I added this to your packages.

Thanks.


Is there some kind of fontconfig configuration file which could be 
included in this package that this would benefit from, causing it to be 
used as a glyph fallback font?



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