Comment 10 for bug 800055

Hi Paul, thanks for your swift reply.

I am using Putty 0.67 and specifying Ubuntu Mono 12-point (under Window/Appearance) as the font. Putty is running in Windows 10 and the remote machine which it is accessing via ssh is running Ubuntu 16.04. The program that produced the screenshot is called 'dialog' - it is a way of using text windows in a linux console:

$ echo "50" | dialog --gauge "Please wait\nand some more" 7 70 0

A similar screen shot using Deja Vu Sans Mono looks like the attachment hereto - the box is perfect but I have to say the font isn't a patch on Ubuntu Mono ;-)

If you want to reproduce this, you may also need to change the Putty setting at Window/Colours to 'Indicate bolded text by changing: The colour'. I also have Windows/Translation Remote Character Set at UTF-8 and 'Handing of line drawing points' as 'Use Unicode line drawing code points', these may or may not make a difference.

I suspect the problem is connected with the fact that I have to use 12-point Ubuntu Mono to get approximately the same size onscreen as 10-point for other fixed fonts. In any case 12-point Ubuntu Mono looks vastly better than smaller point sizes of the same font, for some reason.

Really all we need is a slightly taller vertical line in Ubuntu Mono font, but I realise this may not be possible.