The following package has been added to the Cygwin distribution:
* last-resort-font 15.100
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 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 2023-09-12
This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 15.1.0.
The following changes were made in this release:
627 mappings that correspond to the 627 new characters 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
15.000 2022-09-13
This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 15.0.0.
The following changes were made in this release:
The mappings for the following block were modified to reflect a new
final code point, and its glyph was also modified to reflect the new end
code point of the range that is specified on its right side:
Original Range New Range Block Name
13430..1343F 13430..1345F Egyptian Hieroglyph Format Controls
Seven new glyphs that correspond to the following seven new blocks were added:
Range Block Name
10EC0..10EFF Arabic Extended-C
11B00..11B5F Devanagari Extended-A
11F00..11F5F Kawi
1D2C0..1D2DF Kaktovik Numerals
1E030..1E08F Cyrillic Extended-D
1E4D0..1E4FF Nag Mundari
31350..323AF CJK Unified Ideographs Extension H
4,489 mappings that correspond to the 4,489 new characters in Unicode Version
15.0 were changed.
The 'meta' table was removed (see Issue #10).
The Platform ID and Encoding ID of the Format 13 'cmap' subtable of the
Last Resort High-Efficiency font were changed from 3 (Windows) and 10
(Unicode full repertoire), respectively, to 0 (Unicode) and 6 (Unicode
full repertoire), respectively, per the OpenType Specification (see
Issue #8).
The Last Resort fontâs Format 4 'cmap' subtable now includes 65,535
mappings for the range 0000..FFFE (see Issue #9).
14.000 2021-12-01
This version of the Last Resort fonts corresponds to Unicode Version 14.0.0.
The following changes were made in this release:
Existing glyphs for the following two blocks were modified to reflect a
new final code point (see the 2020-03-11 entry in Errata Fixed in
Unicode 14.0.0):
Original Range New Range Block Name
11700..1173F 11700..1174F Ahom
18D00..18D8F 18D00..18D7F Tangut Supplement
12 new glyphs that correspond to the following 12 new blocks were added:
Range Block Name
0870..089F Arabic Extended-B lastresortarabicextb
10570..105BF Vithkuqi
10780..107BF Latin Extended-F lastresortlatinf
10F70..10FAF Old Uyghur
11AB0..11ABF Unified Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics Extended-A
lastresortucasexta
12F90..12FFF Cypro-Minoan
16A70..16ACF Tangsa
1AFF0..1AFFF Kana Extended-B
1CF00..1CFCF Znamenny Musical Notation lastresortznamennymusic
1DF00..1DFFF Latin Extended-G lastresortlating
1E290..1E2BF Toto
1E7E0..1E7FF Ethiopic Extended-B lastresortethiopicextb
838 mappings that correspond to the 838 new characters in Unicode
Version 14.0 were changed.
13.001 2020-10-22
This version of the Last Resort font corresponds to Unicode Version 13.0.0.
This release includes two versions of the Last Resort font.
Although both fonts can be installed at the same time, because they have
different names, you are encouraged to download and install only the one
that is expected to work in the environments that you use:
13.000 2020-10-08
This version of the Last Resort font corresponds to Unicode Version 13.0.0.
