Mintty math fonts to render '√π⁷≤∞'

Dr Bean drbean@freeshell.org
Mon Jan 13 12:39:45 GMT 2025


On 2023/10/08, Thomas Wolff wrote about mintty font handling:

> By the way, as CJK fonts are usually not very suitable for Latin text 
> (mostly not being monowidth in the first place), there is a useful 
> mechanism in mintty that allows you to use your favourite CJK and 
> non-CJK fonts together.  It's the FontChoice setting for secondary 
> fonts:

> Font=Lucida Console
> Font2=MS ゴシック
> FontChoice=CJK:2

This solved the problem I was having with half-width Korean characters. 
Because the MingLiu font was good for Japanese and Latin text, and the 
good Korean Malgun Gothic font did not draw Japanese characters well, I have in 
.minttyrc:

Font=MingLiU
Font2=Malgun Gothic
FontChoice=Hangul:2

This works without problem.

I'm now looking for a math font to render the 

√π⁷≤∞

Unicode example of the recent 
https://blog.orange.tw/posts/2025-01-worstfit-unveiling-hidden-transformers-in-windows-ansi/
article using the same FontChoice mechanism 

The MingLiu font rendering of 'π' is unreadable.

Does anyone have suggestions for a math font?

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