Achim Gratz wrote: > Sebastien Vauban writes: >> The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to >> Emacs. >> >> But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same >> range of characters in both worlds? > > You seem to assume that those fonts define that particular glyph.
Yes, I was. > Both fonts you use as an example exist in multiple versions with > differing UTF-8 support. If they don't have that glyph (which is > likely, given the results you report), then Emacs would try to get it > from another font with the same dimensions (I don't know if mintty > does font substitution and if so, how) and the results very much > depend on the font maps used. I didn't know about that mechanism. But, then, the question is: why does Windows Emacs find a substitution, and not Cygwin Emacs (for the same font)? Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban -- 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
