bug#51405: Set default font on Windows to Consolas-11

[Vince Salvino]

Courier New generally looks terrible on modern screens, as it has been 
neglected for decades since its original digitization for use with 640x480 CRT 
screens in the early 90s. Many of the character glyphs are only 1 pixel wide 
and look like hairlines on an LCD screen.

To address this, Windows Vista and later ship with Consolas, the default 
monospaced font used in Notepad, CMD (terminal), and other built-in programs. 
It is also used by default in nearly every other text/code editor, web browser, 
and terminal program when requesting a monospace font. Personally speaking, it 
is magnitudes more legible and easier to read. Consolas looks similar to DejaVu 
Mono, which is generally the default in GNU systems. 

This patch changes the default font in MS-Windows to Consolas-11. It will still 
fall back to the previous default (Courier New-10) on older systems where the 
font is not available. I want to be clear that this is not a change for the 
sake of choosing a fashionable font... Consolas has been the default monospace 
font in Windows for 15 years!


Vince Salvino

0001-Set-default-font-on-Windows-to-Consolas-11.patch
Description: 0001-Set-default-font-on-Windows-to-Consolas-11.patch