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I am on linux mint 19 cinnamon. I am trying to use vscode, but the letters are all mangled and unreadable, like this. Can anyone help me fix this? thank you.

eeze
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Considering the current issues with fonts, you can try and change the VSCode fonts with:

"editor.fontFamily": "'Courier New'"
"terminal.integrated.fontFamily": "'DejaVu Sans Mono'"

And see if the situation improves.

Or: see this comment:

For me at least, this was solved by first viewing the user settings (File>Preferences>Settings), and when I added editor.fontFamily to the object I found the default settings out, which were:

"editor.fontFamily": 
   "'Droid Sans Mono', 'Courier New', monospace, 'Droid Sans Fallback'",

As I'm running Linux Mint I don't believe this distro or Ubuntu carry Droid Sans Mono by default any more, so I simply downloaded it from Google Fonts and installed it via the normal means.

Restarted VS Code and voila! Nice fonts again.

VonC
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