Font substitution

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I believe rxvt-unicode is capable of using glyphs from another font when the 
current font does not have them available, or maybe that's Xft on Linux, not 
sure.

Would it be at all possible to do this in mintty?

I use Deja Vu Sans Mono, and it doesn't have Hebrew glyphs, would be very nice 
to see them in irc.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by rkito...@gmail.com on 9 Jul 2011 at 10:49

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Mintty doesn't have such a feature, but Windows does. Microsoft calls it "font 
linking", documented at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb688134.aspx. 
As described there, replacements for each font can be configured in the 
registry, at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows 
NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 13 Jul 2011 at 7:03

• Changed title: Font substitution
• Changed state: Undecided

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I hope that helped.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 28 Jul 2011 at 5:59

• Changed state: Closed