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I want to be able to display the unicode characters ℓ, ∘, ₁, and ⊔ (among others) in emacs in screen in PuTTy. I can see the first one by setting the font to Courier New, or I can see the second and third by setting the font to DejaVu Sans Mono. The square cup shows up as a box in both fonts, and neither can display all of ℓ and ∘ and ₁.

Is there a way to specify a font fallback in PuTTy? (I've gotten used to Courier New, and would like to keep it, but display more characters.) Alternatively, how do I get PuTTy to display the unicode characters I want?

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I use the GNU Unifont with putty for some time now. Get the font, enable the monospaced flag, install it and configure putty to use it.

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    <3 thank you! For info/other, use the script to modify the monospace flag inside the font before install. Also you can skip script part by checking Allow selection of variable-pich fonts (in Putty > Window > Appearance) AND setting font quality to Non-Antialiased (otherwise it laggy)(putty Release 0.70). I prefer the script method tho.
    – Boop
    Mar 20, 2018 at 15:21
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You can use Windows font linking to accomplish this:

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/globalization/mt662331

You need to edit a registry key and then reboot to see the effects:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\FontLink\SystemLink

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