Hi,

I've noticed that in a few cases rxvt-unicode has problems with font
fallback for some unicode characters with Inconsolata 1.010.

You can reproduce the problem as follows:

1. open a terminal and run "urxvt -fn xft:inconsolata:medium:size=12"
2. execute: LANG="en_US.utf8" man groff | less -p bug-groff

Have a look at the borked characters surrounding email-addresses and
urls.  With Inconsolata 1.011 everything seems to be fine.

I'm running rxvt-unicode-256color (version 9.15) and my .fonts.conf
looks like this:

<match target="font" >
  <test name="family" >
    <string>Inconsolata</string>
  </test>
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
    <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
    <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="autohint" >
    <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
    <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
    <const>none</const>
  </edit>
</match>


cheers,
  erik

(Raph, this comes from a bug report in Debian bug tracking system : http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=688212)

Quoting Erik Bernstein (erik@fscking.org):

Sorry for answering quite late.

First of all, we'll need to keep a new upstream only in experimental
as of now, because a new upstream version doesn't fit the freeze
policy.

Still, I'd be happy to package this new upstream version....if only I
could find a place to download it.

I went here and there on Raph Levien's website and the links on the
Inconsolata page all lead me to the 1.010 version.

Hi Christian,

Try google web fonts:

http://www.google.com/webfonts

- Search for "Inconsolata"
- Check both styles and click "Add to Collection"
- Click "Download Your Collection"

This should give you 1.011. At least that's what the .ttf tells me.

cheers,

  erik

Yes, the version at Google Web Fonts is more recent and should be
considered the definitive one.

Note also that there's a bold there now. This will be a significant
advantage to people who have bold styling as part of their syntax
highlighting.

I really need to update my website but I'm kind of buried in work and other
things right now.

Hope this helps,

Raph

Ugh at websites that require JavaScript to function at all.

Unfortunately Google are not distributing the source, which Debian has
promised to do as part of the Debian Free Software Guidelines. We will
need to wait until you release it.

When you update the copy on your website, would it be possible for you
to create a reproducible build path with a Makefile or similar?
Currently Debian is just shipping the pre-built binary .ttf file so we
aren't sure if it is possible for our users to modify the font source
(I guess thats the spiro plates?) and rebuild the font with their
modifications.

All fonts are available from the mercury repository, though Inconsolata
sources are missing (the src directory contains a punch of  vfb files
that are of no use to us):
http://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ofl/inconsolata/

Regards,
 Khaled

Quoting Raph Levien (raph.levien@gmail.com):


Thanks for your answer, Raph. With that information and what followed
in further mails, I'll try to build a package with at least the .ttf
file and the .sfd source (if I can find my way on the repository) but,
certainly, having a disributable tarball (with README, license,
OFL-FAQ, etc. and even a Makefile, as Paul Wise suggested) would be
great. But, of course, I understand you may run short of time for
this.

We'll do our best....as often in free software..:-)

I found out on wikipedia that the inconsolata font has been forked on
Google Foot Directory. It has been fully hinted and a bold variant created.


Project directory:
https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ofl/inconsolata/

Log:
https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/source/browse/ofl/inconsolata/FONTLOG.txt


I have filled https://bugs.debian.org/780233 to request packaging of the
fork.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
fonts-inconsolata, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 688212@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated fonts-inconsolata package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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administrators by mailing ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org)
Format: 1.8
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:24:44 +0200
Source: fonts-inconsolata
Architecture: source
Version: 3.000+ds-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Fonts Task Force <debian-fonts@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 688212 780233
Changes:
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   * Scan Google Fonts repository
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