[TC 11.50ß2] Lister - UTF-8 display uses unsuitable font

[norfie²]

The lister option 7 "UTF-8" (with "standard" font in settings) looks crazy e.g. WCMD_ROM.LNG that is in UTF-8. The ellipsis … (UTF-8 0xE2 0x80 0xA6) is displayed incorrectly as a rectangle. If you look at this with suitable Lister plug-ins, UTF-8 looks normal.

[white]

Press V (Variable char width)?

[norfie²]

The same applies to the display of the ellipsis … with option 1 "Text" "coding" with codepages 1250 until 1256 and …

[norfie²]

Variable char width doesn't fix the problem. It uses a unsuitable font too.

[white]

Variable char width doesn't fix the problem. It uses a unsuitable font too.

Yes, the font "System" doesn't seem to have that character.
Why is that a bug?

[norfie²]

The problem is that TCmd pretends to display in UTF-8 or Windows codepages 1250 to 1256, but does not do it (100% correctly).

[norfie²]

Let's take the file WCMD_CZ.LNG, which uses codepage 1250. It looks strange with the correct setting, i.e. options 1 "Text", "Ansi" and Encoding 1250. There are a lot of rectangles in it.

[ghisler(Author)]

Unfortunately I didn't find a perfect Truetype or Opentype replacement font for the SYSTEM font yet.

[norfie²]

What is wrong with Consolas and Segoi UI?

[cpp64]

What is wrong with Consolas and Segoi UI?

TC supports Win9x and XP also.
There is no Consolas.

[norfie²]

2cpp64
Because it doesn't work on completely outdated systems, should it also not work on slightly outdated and current systems?

[norfie²]

Perhaps it wouldn't be a bad idea to include one font with a variable font width and one with a fixed font width.

Noto is designed as a typeface for the world. "All Noto fonts are licensed under the Open Font License."
https://fonts.google.com/noto/fonts?lang=en_Latn

[white]

I think Notepad++ and Windows Notepad use a font linking mechanism. Perhaps that would also be feasible for TC.

[ghisler(Author)]

Windows itself uses font linking, but it doesn't seem to work with bitmap fonts like SYSTEM.

[white]

Windows itself uses font linking, but it doesn't seem to work with bitmap fonts like SYSTEM.

Yes, I got confused