Tuesday, February 19, 2013

Re: Copying text from wikipedia yields: lots of ???

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 3:23 PM, Ben Fritz <fritzophrenic@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tuesday, February 19, 2013 2:06:07 PM UTC-6, Daniel M. Eldridge wrote:
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> Thank-you John.
> I've found a number of fonts that have increased coverage--more characters, but I'm confused about how to display more fonts in Edit | Select Font...
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Vim should display all *monospace* fonts currently installed on your system in this menu.

If the fonts you found are not monospace, Vim will not show them.

If they are monospace...did you install them by copying their files to C:\Windows\Fonts or wherever that folder is?

Note: see http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Change_font for useful related information.

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Aha. Got it!
and clicking on "Show more fonts" displays Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Fonts
and in Details view I can choose to display a bunch of attributes, however, NOT ONE OF 'em is Mono Space or Variable Space!
Argh.

Courier_New has lots of coverage, though it does not display all of the characters from the languages section of the Jeremy Lin article:

but, then neither does my browser:


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