Cygwin fails to utilize Unicode replacement character

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  7 13:51, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> 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?

The loop is handling the weird DejaVu Sans Mono behaviour I explained
in previous mail.

I uploaded new snapshots to https://cygwin.de/snapshots/


Enjoy,
Corinna

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