Sunday, February 21, 2010

Using English fonts in Windows 7 with Chinese local setting

Windows 7 comes with Lucida Console and Consolas as its default console fonts, but I find no option to enable either of them when my location is set to China. After a few tries, I managed to get them via the following steps:

  1. Right click the console icon and go to the default menu item;
  2. Set the default code page to '437 OEM';
  3. Switch to the font tab, and change the font to Lucida Console, press OK button;
  4. Restart the console and go to the code page setting back to '936 Chinese'.

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