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PowerShell 4.0 is madly in love with “English (United States)”

A long time ago I started writing up my blog post like this in March 2015 when I bumped into this the first time when upgrading from PowerShell 2 to PowerShell 4:

It seems there is no real workaround:

• Powershell 4 console font issue | Microsoft Connect.
• Cannot change powershell default font to Lucida Console – Super User.
• Console host does not allow font adjustment in V3 | Microsoft Connect.

Good and not so good news: after reading the below linked posts, this is what works:

• PowerShell 4 and up works fine with any Lucida Console size (including 12) and boldness
  • only when the “Language for non-Unicode programs” is set to “English (United States)”.
• PowerShell 4 works fine with Consolas on any size and boldness
  • for any “Language for non-Unicode programs”

So if you’re like me and switch between “Dutch (Netherlands)” and “English (Ireland)” a lot (both use the EURO as currency, but have distinct enough other locale settings to cover a lot of European stuff) then you need to get used to the Consolas font.

Source:

• Setting the font of a PowerShell console to Lucida Console won’t work | Emil’s Lost & Found Archive
• Unable to set the default PowerShell font to Lucida Console – markwilson.it

–jeroen