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How to change / configure font fallback?

Recently I re-installed Windows XP English, and after setting the locale to Japanese, and installing my favorite fonts, all Japanese text in the GUI became strange. The GUI font is Tahoma (default). ...
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Monaco font not appearing in PuTTY font list

I'm using PuTTY 0.60 under Windows XP. I recently downloaded and installed the Monaco font, and configured PuTTY to use it. However, after reboot, the Monaco font doesn't appears in PuTTYs font list; ...
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Fonts on Certain Web Pages jagged and blocky on XP yet fine in Windows7

This site for example: http://www.cultbox.co.uk/reviews/episodes/778-twenty-twelve-episode-3-review Which has this CSS - http://www.cultbox.co.uk/style.css body { text-align: center; font-...
26 votes
4 answers
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How to change the Windows XP console font?

I have been using Cleartype and Vista fonts on Windows XP for quite a while now. I love the Consolas font for working with source code. I would love to have it as the font of my Windows console (...
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2 answers
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Question Mark Replaced by É

This happens occasionally. Today it happened in a calendar item in outlook 2003. As you can see from the title here, the question mark is working here (Firefox). I am typing and suddenly the question ...
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1 answer
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Korean characters not appearing in Korean Windows XP computer

I am using a Korean software (with a partial English interface) in a Korean Version of Windows XP SP 3 However, in parts of the software, even when I change the interface to Korean, Korean letters ...
16 votes
5 answers
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What font does CMD.exe use by default for output in Windows XP?

This is mostly just curiosity. I'm not sure if it is Courier, Courier New, Lucida Console, or the like.
2 votes
4 answers
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Ugly font antialiasing

I have a problem with font antialiasing on a Windows XP PC. Example image (top half bad vs bottom half good taken on another XP box): I'm using normal antialiasing (I don't like ClearType). What ...
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2 answers
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What is the name of the this DOS font? Where and how to add it? Why is there a 1 pixel gap?

So basically I somehow stepped into this webpage: [removed because it now redirects to a reward survey site] And the first thing that hit me hard was the lovely DOS fonts, so naturally I wanted to ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Convert .fon to TTF or OTF

How can I convert a bitmap fonts (.fon) into TTF or OTF fonts? I don't need any of the features in vector fonts such as ClearType; I just want my bitmap font simply transformed into TTF or OTF format....
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Increasing font weight (making it bolder) in Firefox on Windows XP

My laptop screen got burned so I use an external monitor, but all fonts look very thin for some reason. How can I bolden-up fonts in Firefox? P.S. I didn't find any info that helps, most tricks ...
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Programs using an Asian font for context menus and title bars

The image here describes what I'm talking about. How can I change this font back to Segoe UI? Windows XP on this computer is in Chinese by the way. I tried regional and language settings and I tried ...
0 votes
1 answer
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Uneven and blurry fonts across the whole system in XP

In Windows XP, all fonts look 'uneven' and are a headache to read. The display is VGA (and LCD) and the resolution is 1280x768. The vertical lines on some characters vary in thickness and blurriness. ...
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Is there a simple way to organize fonts into folders and switch between them?

As a graphic designer, I have a large number of fonts installed on my PC (WIN XP SP3). I need the variety, but the many fonts slow my applications considerably. Is there a simple way to organize ...
2 votes
5 answers
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How to change the Font of Outlooks folder list?

Some Colleagues asked me how to change the font or font size of the Folders inside Outlook 2003 (Inbox, Sent Items and so on) I searched all the View-Options inside Outlook and changed "every" other ...

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