On 2018-09-04 12:20, Steven Penny wrote: > On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 16:18:21, Thomas Wolff wrote: >> My vote is against the patch because the nodef glyph will often be just blank >> space which is certainly worse than ▒.
Not according to the sample below: you would have to know that medium shade means unavailable. >> If conhost does not provide a reasonable way to enquire 0xFFFD availability >> it's conhost's fault, not cygwin's so why should cygwin implement a bad >> compromise. If conhost ever improves, cygwin can adapt. > This is some dangerous commentary. I would like to counter it now with some > actual research. Using BabelMap: > http://babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelMap.html > You can do "Fonts", "Font Coverage" and you will get this result with code > point > FFFD: > yes: DejaVu Sans Mono > no: > - Consolas > - Courier New > - Lucida Console > - MS Gothic > - NSimSun > - SimSun-ExtB > This is concerning true, but we can then review the ".notdef glyph" for the > problem fonts. As this glyph is not an actual character, i cant paste it here, > but i will describe them below: > empty rectangle: > - Courier New > - Lucida Console > - MS Gothic > - SimSun-ExtB > rectangle with a question mark inside: Consolas These are both recommended .notdef glyphs. > none: NSimSun Valid OTF and TTF fonts must have a glyph with index entry 0 used for .notdef. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. -- 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
