[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty-0.9.6-1

Bengt Larsson lists.cygwin2@bengtl.net
Tue Feb 22 17:40:00 GMT 2011


Andy Koppe wrote:
>On 21 February 2011 13:54, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>>>>>- Fixed crash triggered by lots of combining characters on the same
>>>>>line.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks. I used to have problems with mintty crashing but I was never
>>>> able to isolate anything.
>>>
>>>You're welcome. Are you sure this is the problem you encountered?
>>
>> I was fixing an editor to do UTF-8 and was running some pretty
>> serious UTF-8 testcases, which, indeed, included a lot of combining
>> characters.
>
>On 21 February 2011 17:17, Bengt Larsson wrote:
>> Oh, and it works now. I haven't been able to break it since.
>
>Thanks for testing. Out of curiosity, what's the editor you were working on?

Mg2a. Mg, formerly known as MicroGnuEmacs. It has been my portable
editor for a long time, and now when Cygwin uses UTF-8 I was stranded.
So I've been adding UTF-8 support. I'm almost done. I'm writing READMEs.

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