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>In Visual Studio .NET IDE font settings (Tools, Options,
Environment \ Font
>and Colors), some installed fonts are not listed. And
funnily, when you
>choose different selections in "Show settings for:" drop
down, different
>fonts are missing or listed. For example, for Text
Editor, you can choose
>the MS Sans Serif font, but for Dialogs and Tool
Windows, MS Sans Serif is
>not listed. For all settings except for Printer, Tahoma
is not listed but
>Tahoma Bold is, and Arial Narrow is unlisted while Arial
Narrow Bold Italic
>is.
>
>Of course, if you select "Automatic" in those settings,
the dialogs and tool
>windows would probably be displayed in Tahoma font. But
my Win XP uses
>Simplify Chinese as the default locale so the default
font is not Tahoma and
>that's how I noticed this. I searched the registry
for "FontAndColors" and
>found some keys containing the font settings. After I
changed those values
>to "Tahoma" Visual Studio displayed in Tahoma with no
problem. But when I
>open the font settings page it will be switched back to
Tahoma Bold, and I
>have to hit cancel.
>
>I had thought the fonts were unlisted because of some
language issue, but I
>was surprised to find the same thing happening on our
school computer lab
>PCs (they are in US). Has anyone else noticed / heard of
this?
>
>
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