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It does work on Windows. Kinda. I'm using Consolas, and simple mode has a little question-mark-in-a-box where some dividers should be. Unicode mode is worse. Absolutely usable, though.

It'll take more fiddling than it's worth to patch the font on Windows, so I plan on booting Ubuntu to do it later.

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Yeah, feel sorry for those that haven't discovered Consolas, such a better looking font on gvim anyway :)

Seconding a upload request if someone patches it. Had a go on cygwin but you're needing a few dependencies by the looks of things.

I'm trying to patch the Consolas font on Windows 7 using Cygwin, installing a bunch of dependencies for it. I will try to host it somewhere if I succeed and if no one did it until then :)

I can't get it working on Windows. The Consolas patched font looks ugly and it does not show the fancy glyphs. Even using Menlo, Inconsolata or Mensch version posted here http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3457785 the glyphs does not show as on the screenshots on the vim-powerline readme. Sad :)

The hinting/subpixel-shading/whatever on Menlo and Mensch looks awful on Windows Vista, although they do provide the proper symbols. After patching Consola, I got the same awful look and no symbols, even with `let g:Powerline_symbols="fancy" set and c:\tmp\Powerline.cache deleted before running the first time.

Edit 2: The symbols _did_ work on Menlo and Mensch yesterday. Today they do not, even with setting the font and g:Power_linesymbols in _vimrc and deleting the cache file and restarting the editor. There's something odd going on.

After deleting the Powerline.cache file, I now have the '€' symbol and ',' instead of the arrows I think. Using the Inconsolata that can be found upper in the comments or Menlo does not help. It's still very usable and useful ;)

Yeah I'm getting the same behavior. When you patch it, can you let me know?

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