C++ MFC TextOut/DrawText: some characters are wider in other programs in Consolas 9

Zoltán Hegedüs 101

My English is not perfect. I am using a high dpi monitor, so at the settings of Windows, there is 3 multipled by 96 dpi = 288 dpi. (0,16 mm multipled by 3 = 0,48 mm, I have some short sight = myopia). (This website eats asterix characters).

I am using the font Consolas 9, so, really Consolas 27.
At my own program (Visual C++ with MFC, with TextOutW and DrawText), some characters, for example ∃ ∄ ∀, about as wide as other characters. In other programs, for example Visual Studio, LibreOffice Writer, these are wider than others: for example the numbers. How can I write the wider version to the display? And how can I get the width without displaying them? Thank you.

simonberrurier-7045 41 Reputation points

2021-04-05T15:18:39.677+00:00

Consolas is monospaced : consolas
Then all characters have same width
Zoltán Hegedüs 101 Reputation points

2021-04-05T16:56:06.377+00:00

In Visual Studio, and in LibreOffice Writer, Consolas does not monoshaped. Try the 3 example characters:
∃∄∀∃∄∀
012012
Jeanine Zhang-MSFT 9,181 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor

2021-04-06T03:23:00.197+00:00

@Zoltán Hegedüs

It is drawing monospaced. It's just that the width of each character isn't an integral number of pixels

I suggest you could try to use Graphics::GetTextRenderingHint method instead of DrawText.
Zoltán Hegedüs 101 Reputation points

2021-04-10T16:42:22.613+00:00

No, some characters are not monospaced, for example ∃∄∀.