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[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: mintty 2.7.1


I have uploaded mintty 2.7.1 with the following changes:

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).

The homepage is at http://mintty.github.io/
It also links to the issue tracker.

------
Thomas

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