github mintty/mintty 2.7.0

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7 years ago

Major release highlights:

  • Localization.
  • Compose key.

Character display:

  • Check for misplaced underline by looking for underline only in descender section to decide whether to draw it ourselves (#604).
  • New option UnderlineColour to set colour for all lining modes and enforce manual underlining (~#604).

Terminal:

  • Compose key.
  • Workaround to enable Shift+space in modifyOtherKeys mode.
  • Avoiding multiple device attribute reports (#606).
  • Dynamic switching escape sequences for wide Indic and Extra characters (#553).

Configuration:

  • User interface localization (#537, #1).
  • New option value -Rm to report system's monitor configuration (/#599).
  • New option --wsl to enable WSL feature adaptations (mintty/wsltty/#8).
  • Manual: fixed description of copy/paste shortcuts and refer to option CtrlExchangeShift (#602, #524).
  • Case-insensitive lookup for X11 color names (#600).
  • Dropped experimental options WideIndic and WideExtra in favour of dynamic switching escape sequences (/#553).
  • Detection and graceful handling of corrupt font installation.

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