Your font does not contain Russian letters but if one has Russian locale and previews this font, he will see a Russian letters as at your first screenshot. This is because of font substitution, see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/globalization/...
Russin fonts display confusion
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Anonymous
I'm an open source programmer and one of my Russian friends was viewing his copy of aharoni.tty font using Windows Font Viewer (Font - inside the control panel) he sees this:
Now this is a Hebrew font and doesn't contain any of these characters. On my English US Windows 10 I get the correct characters:
Anyone know what's going on here?
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Anonymous
2022-09-07T18:59:39+00:00 Thank You!
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Anonymous
2022-09-07T17:55:28+00:00 Actually I sent him the font from here:
I suspect it has something to do with his installed language of Russian but I'm at a lost as to why or where its getting its characters.
The whole conversation is on github:
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![](data:image/svg+xml, %3Csvg xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg' height='64' class='font-weight-bold' style='font: 600 30.11764705882353px "SegoeUI", Arial' width='64'%3E%3Ccircle fill='hsl(256, 10%, 34%)' cx='32' cy='32' r='32' /%3E%3Ctext x='50%25' y='55%25' dominant-baseline='middle' text-anchor='middle' fill='%23FFF' %3EIL%3C/text%3E%3C/svg%3E)
Igor Leyko 111K Reputation points Independent Advisor2022-09-07T13:57:21+00:00 Hi Paul,
My name is Igor, I have 12 Microsoft MVP awards. It's a pleasure for me to help others and I'll do all my best to help you. I'm sorry you have a problems.
You are talking about different font versions.
And maybe there are different sources of font. Please ask your friend, where was font downloaded from?