FreeMono font will not work for Windows 10 consoles

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FreeMono font will not work for Windows 10 consoles #232

Open astralis opened 2 years ago

astralis commented 2 years ago

Therefore, it appears this no longer works with Windows 10, at least.

The font will not appear in the Windows console prompt. There are some fonts that will never display despite being correctly added to the registry. FreeMono is one of them that will not work with Windows 10.

ScorpioTM commented 2 years ago

Hi, I faced the same problem and after trying almost everything by myself, I found this https://github.com/yaronn/blessed-contrib/issues/109#issuecomment-385771722 pointing me to probably the only fix for this issue.

Basically, for an unknown reason the new versions of FreeMono seem to not be supported by the Windows 10 CMD, after testing all the versions on the GNU site, I found that the good one is the freefont-ttf-20080323 version.

Regards.