Dammit Coetzee » sans http://dammitcoetzee.com A site whose name looks bad on a resume. Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:29:47 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Thanks for ruining my programming font DejaVu http://dammitcoetzee.com/2010/02/thanks-for-ruining-my-programming-font-dejavu/ http://dammitcoetzee.com/2010/02/thanks-for-ruining-my-programming-font-dejavu/#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 13:17:04 +0000 DammitCoetzee http://dammitcoetzee.com/?p=44 Continue reading →]]> I run Windows 7 on my desktop with great success because I cheat and run ubuntu 9.10 in a virtual machine for all my programming needs. Yesterday, much to my dismay I realized that my font looked strange. Quickly, I navigated to my font menu and went to select my favorite “bitstream vera sans mono”.

“Ah, it’s not here, it must just not be installed. I’ll just fire up Synaptic and… Oh god, where is it”

I panicked. A fast ctrl-t and a google search later I find my answer, “In Ubuntu 9.10 we decided to replace ttf-bitstream-vera with DejaVu. Forget you, it’s better.”

“Ah, well”, i thought to myself, “It says here that this DejaVu font is exactly the same as Vera but with more characters, that’s cool.”

This, however, is a horrible lie. Why?

whereismygap

WHERE IS MY GAP!?!

To me, what makes a programming font is that you can see every character. There are some languages that depend on the programmer being able to count those little “_” marks .

It may be a small thing for most people, but it bothers me intensely. Especially since it’s a blatant lie. This isn’t bitstream-vera this is something else. Things have been changed, that makes it different. End of story.

It’s like someone forcing you to drink pepsi because they cant tell the difference between it and coke.

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