On Mon, 03 Sep 2018 15:15:26, Steven Penny wrote:
Expanding on the "Notepad" example, "Notepad" default font is "Lucida Console", which doesnt have U+FFFD either. However pasting into "Notepad" will still show U+FFFD properly because "Tahoma" has U+FFFD and "Notepad" can utilize composite font, while it appears "cmd.exe" and similar cannot.
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2018-09/msg00060.html I should correct myself. "cmd.exe" can do this, its called Font Linking: http://docs.microsoft.com/globalization/input/font-technology it allows you to pick a "base font", for example "Consolas". Then you can link another font that has U+FFFD, like "Tahoma". Ideally both fonts would be monospace, but it seems Windows has no builtin monospace font with U+FFFD. Then when a missing character is encountered, it will pull from the linked font if possible. -- 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