Chinese support for Console

Humongous thanks go out to Sourceforge user bozho for posting this fix. I’ve been wanting to use the Console project for years as a CMD.EXE frontend, but was never able to because of its problems with CJK support.

The problem seems to be that Console 2 breaks its spacing if you use raster fonts instead of True Type Fonts in your CMD.EXE settings.

Below is a simple registry patch to pre-patch your registry for running Console 2. Once you apply this registry patch, the current builds of Console 2 should do Simplified Chinese perfectly. Alternatively, you can try bozho’s instructions. When I tried, it wouldn’t let me open the properties, so I had to create my settings with another CMD.EXE instance and hack the subkey name to match Console2’s.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\\\Console\\\Console2 command window]
"CodePage"=dword:000003a8
"FontSize"=dword:000a0000
"FontFamily"=dword:00000036
"FontWeight"=dword:00000190
"FaceName"="新宋体"
"HistoryNoDup"=dword:00000000

Hope this helps a few other people to enjoy this great project.

The current release of Console 2 as post time is 2.00b127-Beta.

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