Limited number of fonts

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Select font from Text option screen.
2.Only unicode fonts are listed
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

Used to have access to all fonts available to me, however not anymore.
What versions of mintty, Cygwin/MSYS, and Windows are you using?

Cygwin 1.7, Windows 7 x64, Mintty .8.1
Please provide any additional information below.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by aale...@gmail.com on 8 Aug 2010 at 7:47

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That's a Windows 7 feature: it hides most fonts by default. Clicking on the 
'Show more fonts' link in the font selection dialog will take you to the fonts 
folder where you can right-click on fonts and select 'Show'.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 8 Aug 2010 at 9:46

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Hi, tried exactly what you did and most if not all the fonts were already being 
shown? However, i toyed around with it and get more fonts showing up but theyre 
all chinese ones..

Original comment by aale...@gmail.com on 9 Aug 2010 at 2:12

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So what fonts are you actually missing? Are they marked as 'Show' in the font 
folder, such that their icon appears normally rather than faint? Only monospace 
fonts such as Consolas, Fixedsys, or Courier New will be offered in mintty.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 9 Aug 2010 at 5:38

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ps: You might have to restart mintty for changes in the fonts folder to be 
reflected in the font selection dialog.

Original comment by andy.koppe on 9 Aug 2010 at 5:56

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Original comment by andy.koppe on 11 Aug 2010 at 9:17

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