setup and mintty (was Re: New setup.exe release?)

[Charles Wilson]

On 5/25/2011 12:52 PM, Andy Koppe wrote:
> On 25 May 2011 16:26, Charles Wilson wrote:
>> On 5/25/2011 1:17 AM, Andy Koppe wrote:
>>> On 25 May 2011 05:32, Charles Wilson wrote:
>>>>> Maybe when I get home I'll test out a few...
>>>>>
>>>>> Consolas
>>>>> Andale Mono
>>>>> Courier New
>>>>> Lucida Console
>>>>> Vera Sans Mono (or DejaVu LGC Sans)
>>>>> Droid Sans Mono
>>>>> Inconsolata
>>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> FYI:
>>>> http://cygutils.fruitbat.org/mintty-font-test/
>>>
>>> Good work.
>>>
>>> What mintty version is that though? It seems to be missing the
>>> fallback scheme to (rough) ASCII equivalents for the VT100 graphics
>>> characters.
>>
>> mintty-0.9.8-1
>>
>> The difference MAY be that I didn't actually cat xgraphics each time
>> after changing the font.  I merely changed the font, while the earlier
>> xgraphics result was viewable in the terminal.  If the fallback scheme
>> relies on actually changing the internally-stored character code, rather
>> than changing which glyph is used to draw that character, then my
>> technique would bypass the fallback.
> 
> Yep, that explains it.

Ok, I redid the screenshots, but this time I made sure to cat the
xgraphics file again after changig the font.  And, you can see the G0/G1
VT100 line drawing modes, for the less-complete fonts, are getting the
ASCII fallbacks.  Except for Terminus, for some reason.

I also added the Consolas-W7 snap you sent, and a new entry for
Liberation Mono.

--
Chuck

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