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 -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
