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Fix an issue with curly braces in the Monaco font Apps
I haven't really figured out what caused the problem, but I was having trouble with the way the curly braces showed up in Terminal.app, where the closing brace seems to get corrupted in drawing, as can be seen in the image at right. The problem only seems to occur in the 10pt variant of Monaco, as used by the Terminal. It goes away if anti-aliasing is turned on for the window, but within Terminal this has a negative impact on the legibility.

The workaround: In Terminal, go to the Window Settings, click on the pulldown menu to get to the Display settings and click on the Set Font button. You will get a standard font selection window. Now go to the Size input. Instead of selecting a manual size, go directly to the input box that reads the current point size (should be 10 or 10.0) and change it to 10.1. Problem solved.

Unfortunately, this solution does not work for iTerm, which seems to ignore non-rounded font sizes.

[robg adds: I couldn't reproduce this on my machines, but perhaps it will be useful to someone...]
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Fix an issue with curly braces in the Monaco font
Authored by: macgruder on Jul 18, '06 08:19:35AM

This type of issues is invariable caused by a corrupted font cache. I can't remember where this is located, but a delete and a restart solves the problem.

I think it can be fixed with Yasu.



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Easier way
Authored by: boredzo on Jul 18, '06 02:47:26PM

You can just do this instead:

rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/$UID/*


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Ooops
Authored by: boredzo on Jul 18, '06 02:48:44PM

Replied to the wrong comment. Sorry.



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Fix an issue with curly braces in the Monaco font
Authored by: durin42 on Jul 18, '06 08:31:00AM
Your ATS caches are corrupt. Remove the file caches located in /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/uid/ where uid is your numeric user ID.

rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/`id | cut -f 1 -d | sed -e 's/[^0-9]//g'`/*

should do the trick for you (note: I make no claims that this is actually right and not mangled from the copy/paste).

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Easier way
Authored by: boredzo on Jul 18, '06 02:50:18PM

You can just do this instead:

rm /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS/$UID/*


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Fix an issue with curly braces in the Monaco font
Authored by: Dragon76 on Jul 19, '06 07:55:55AM
I use the font Video Terminal Screen which is a pixel-perfect recreation of the 8x16 VGA font. You have to set it to 16 pt (which is the font size in DOS) for it to look correct. It's free on the web

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Fix an issue with curly braces in the Monaco font
Authored by: sjmills on Jul 19, '06 11:30:17AM

I've also seen this in Xcode some days. And other places. I believe it started happening in 10.4.6 if I remember correctly. I submitted a radar for it.



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