What font does the Japanese locale for Windows 7 use?

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The command line font changes when you change locale from English to Japanese. What is the name of the font?

Joona

Posted 2017-01-24T04:39:28.083

Reputation: 3

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Short Answer

The font is called Terminal (both for English and ), and the font file name of the Japanese one is vga932.fon (located, naturally, in C:\Windows\Fonts)

Long Answer

The Windows 7 (in Windows 10 that changed) Command Prompt uses an old bitmap type font called Terminal/Raster:

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That font is one of the .fon files in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder, all of these font files are named something like vga***.fon, where the start stands for a number, this number is one of the Windows codepages, and whatever codepage the System Locale language is using that is the font the CMD will use.

So since 932 is the Japanese codepage that Windows uses, the font CMD uses is vga932.fon

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Yisroel Tech

Posted 2017-01-24T04:39:28.083

Reputation: 4 307

Thanks! I copied the vga932.fon (from command line, couldn't see it in folder) and renamed it with FontForge to install and use it without having to change to Japanese locale. – Joona – 2017-01-24T07:59:23.693