On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 22:33:57 +0200, Thomas Wolff > > Am 25.04.2021 um 15:41 schrieb Lemures Lemniscati via Cygwin: > > Hi! > > > > mintty overstrokes some fonts unexpectedly. > > https://gitlab.com/test.cases/mintty-test/-/tree/54ae800e695ecd1741851cab57320a9d0e95a6fd > > > > I got a result mintty-sample-msgothic.png. > > https://gitlab.com/test.cases/mintty-test/-/blob/54ae800e695ecd1741851cab57320a9d0e95a6fd/mintty-sample-msgothic.png > > > > In the 4th line of the output, fonts (of u+25cb) were overstruck > > unexpectedly. > > And there are other characters also, which are similarly overstruck. > This is a Windows bug. Mintty clearly instruct Windows to apply equidistant > spacing to achieve fixed-width character cell behaviour. But for certain > character ranges, Windows ignores that. Another example for such misbehaviour > is the Tibetan block (U+0F00-U+0FFF). Mintty could work around that by > rendering characters separately, at a significant penalty for output speed > however. Or it could do that only for affected ranges, but criteria to > identify them are obscure.
Thank you, Thomas. I tried some earlier versions of mintty: * mintty-3.1.0-1 has the same issue * mintty-2.9.6-0 works expectedly in this case. Regards, Lem -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
