github mintty/mintty 2.7.1

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7 years ago

Highlights:

  • Tweaked and polished localization support; including German and French translations in cygwin package.
  • Uniscribe support and improved font fallback.
  • Support for distinct colour attributes for combining characters.

Full changelog:

Character display:

  • Uniscribe support for left-to-right text (~#573, ~#605, /#430), achieving:
  • Improved font fallback.
  • New option FontRender=uniscribe to enable Uniscribe support (#605, #573).
  • New option UnderlineManual to enforce manual lining with default colour (#604).
  • Support for distinct colour attributes for combining characters.
  • Ensuring font underlining of separately drawn combined characters.

Localization:

  • Fallback from region-specific to generic translation ("fr_FR" -> "fr") (#537).
  • Windows user language as an additional option for language selection (#537).
  • Enabled localization of Options tree menu labels (#537).
  • Enabled localization of system menu standard items (#537).
  • Support reverse-localization of Windows-localized menu entries with Language=en.
  • Simplified menu item localization (#537).
  • Localization of message boxes (#537).
  • Preserving system menu icons.
  • Avoiding artefacts with non-ASCII labels of Options dialog elements.

Keyboard:

  • Enabled Compose key with Shift in modifyOtherKeys mode.

Other:

  • Suppressing repeated font error messages.
  • Enabled link-click in wsltty (#164).

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