that thing with the fonts and julia, and that other thing with plotutils

[Marco Atzeri]

On 04.09.2020 05:58, briand (at) pounceofcats.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Just got a new computer at work, so it got a very fresh install of cygwin.
> 
> The problem i was having with the fonts not displaying correctly in Julia is now gone, and that's much more important than it sounds.  A great many of the julia packages, and some that I use frequently, make heavy use of unicode characters so it could be quite difficult to know what was going on.
> 
> However the segfault problem with graph is still there.
> 
> So, something in the windows set-up seems to be responsible for having broken the unicode/font display, because i was running the same version of cygwin on both machines (and both under W10).
> 
> The thing with graph segfaulting is giving the exact same behavior, so that's still a mystery.  and yes i did install both the "test" version of plotutils and the version before and both versions gave the exact same symptoms.
> 

a simple test case, please

It is difficult to correct any problem without it

Marco