Thomas Wolff wrote: > Now that cygwin supports UTF-8 in a standard fashion, I think it's time > to also add Unicode fonts to the Cygwin/X distribution. Otherwise the > additional value of running xterm or rxvt in UTF-8 mode is quite limited. > > I would be willing to provide the Unicode versions of the standard > "misc-fixed" fonts (source: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html) > as a package maintainer, if that's accepted. > (I would appreciate some positive feedback before taking the effort > to prepare the package.)
I think this is a great idea. Please do prepare a package and post an official ITP (I'm not sure if X-specific package proposals should be ITP'ed on cygwin-xfree or cygwin-apps). I'm hoping that cygwin-1.7 + rxvt-unicode-8.x (+ ncurses configured for wide char support?) will replace the need for your earlier "unicode shims" contribution to rxvt-unicode. It'd certainly be easier to test that with some unicode fonts already in the distro... It might also be a good idea to supplement the existing font-bitstream-vera-ttf package with the DejaVu fonts http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page (or DejaVu-LGC [Latin-Greek-Cyrillic] for the less-ambitious). Fedora packages them as dejavu-sans-fonts dejavu-sans-mono-fonts dejavu-serif-fonts dejavu-fonts-common since unicode fonts can get rather large... -- Chuck -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/ FAQ: http://x.cygwin.com/docs/faq/