I would like to offer the following package on Cygwin:
* last-resort-font 15.100
This package is available in the Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE
distributions.
It is licensed under SIL OFL-1.1.
It was originally developed by Apple for macOS, modified to work on
non-Apple systems for Unicode.org, and is updated by Michael Everson of
Evertype and Unicode.org, and released by Unicode.org in conjunction
with the standard, which has just been updated to 15.1.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Resort_font
Playground build:
https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/jobs.cgi?id=6994&srcpkg=playground&status=build+succeeded&user=Brian+Inglis
cygport:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=80da73a6dc50d3997c819ac16132292245bd584a
noarch log:
https://github.com/cygwin/scallywag/actions/runs/6164152064/job/16729363342
The font files are not part of the release tar, but the LICENSE,
README.md and linked images/ are!
Proposed Announcement:
Unicode Last Resort fallback font
Unicode.org Last Resort font is a Unicode font designed as a
fallback with representative glyphs and labels to show a missing
glyph belongs to a specific:
* Unicode Block with common characteristics
* Private Use Area, for which no (official) agreement exists
* Unassigned Block or code point, reserved for future assignment
* Noncharacter code point.
NOTE
A High Efficiency alternative with cmap table Format 13 Many-to-One
Range Mappings subtable is included, which may not be supported by some
Adobe and Windows apps, but is only 517KB, 6% of the size of the 8MB cmap
table Format 12 Segmented Coverage subtable alternative.
Both alternatives cmap tables include Windows required Format 4 Segment
Mapping to Delta Values subtable, but that of the High Efficiency
alternative is an empty stub subtable.
For more information see the project home page:
https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font
For recent changes, see below or read /usr/share/doc/unifont/NEWS after
installation.
See also Release Notes under:
https://github.com/unicode-org/last-resort-font/releases/tag/15.100
15.100 2023-09-11
This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 15.1.0.
The following changes were made in this release:
627 glyph mappings that correspond to the 627 new characters added in Unicode
Version 15.1 were changed.
One new glyph that corresponds to the following new block was added:
Range Block Name
2EBF0..2EE5F CJK Unified Ideographs Extension I
