Re: fc-list does not list windows system fonts under cygwin

[Andy Koppe <andy dot koppe at gmail dot com>]

2009/10/1 Ken Brown:
> I'm cc-ing the cygwin-xfree list, which is where I think fontconfig
> questions belong. ÂI can confirm that on my system, fc-list produces strange
> output on the windows system fonts. ÂI'm not sure if it's the same problem
> you were reporting.
>
> For example, I get the following in a mintty window under cygwin 1.7:
>
> $ fc-list|grep -i micro
> Microsoft Sans
> Serif:style=Regular,Normal,obyÐejnÐÐ,Standard,ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ,Normaali,NormÐÐl,Normale,Standaard,Normalny,ÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐÐ,NormÐÐlne,Navadno,Arrunta

Looks like mintty is set to the wrong character set. Have you got KOI8
or CP1251 selected on Options->Text? Although, I rather suspect all
those translations of "Regular" are encoded in several different
charsets anyway.

Andy

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