> will
> > help? It shows how to make arbitrary TrueType
> fonts
> > available to the console (they should be
> monospace, of
> > course).
>
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
> > It's not. The terminal emulator program has to
> understand
> > the character encoding in order to pick the right
> > character out of the font.
> >
>
> Actually it can. Just say "chcp 65001" and the magic
> will
> happen. Actually a point were the native prompt has
> an edge
> on the various 'improvements' out there!
>
> So between those two I've made a rundown:
>
> 1. Make sure you have the DejaVu fonts installed:
>
>
<>
> or <
http://tinyurl.com/yamuto>
>
> 2. Download <lingua.melroch.se/consolefont.reg>, to
> your
> desktop for example
>
> (It looks like this:
>
> Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
>
> [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
> NT\CurrentVersion\Console\TrueTypeFont] "00"="DejaVu
> Sans Mono"
>
> )
>
> 3. Double-click the file consolefont.reg and OK the
> up-
> popping dialogs.
>
> 4. Reboot
> 5. Open a command prompt/console window
> 6. Right click the name bar of the window and choose
> "Settings" or whatver 'tis called on Englysshe.
> 7. Choose "DejaVu Sans Mono" in the tab Fonts (or
> whatver
> 'tis called on Englysshe). You may want to set
> the size
> to 14 too.
> 8. Save it for the future.
> 9. Type "chcp 65001" in the command prompt (you will
> have
> to do that anew everytime you want to use
> Non-ASCII).
> 10. Voilà!
>
> My command prompt now looks like
>
> <
http://tinyurl.com/4fknv3>!
>
>
>
> /BP 8^)>
> --
> Benct Philip Jonsson -- melroch atte melroch dotte
> se
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> "C'est en vain que nos Josués littéraires crient
> à la langue de s'arrêter; les langues ni le
> soleil
> ne s'arrêtent plus. Le jour où elles se *fixent*,
> c'est qu'elles meurent." (Victor Hugo)
>