# Use monospace font in UI text entry fields, e.g Consolas

**URL:** https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/use-monospace-font-in-ui-text-entry-fields-e-g-consolas/5009
**Category:** New Features
**Created:** [April 6, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/use-monospace-font-in-ui-text-entry-fields-e-g-consolas/5009 "2023-04-06T03:16:56Z")
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### Author: ![mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/c5a1d2/32.png) [@mike808](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/u/mike808)
#### Post date: [April 6, 2023, 3:16am UTC](https://discussion.mcebuddy2x.com/t/use-monospace-font-in-ui-text-entry-fields-e-g-consolas/5009/1 "2023-04-06T03:16:56Z")

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**Request Type:** NEW FEATURE

**MCEBuddy Version:** 2.5.8 March 27, 2023

**Operating System:** Win10x64 22H2

**Summary of the problem or suggestion:**  
I have the following regex for a Channel filter in a profile: “\*;~\*DT,~\*DT2;~\*DT3;~\*DT4,~\*DT5”

I could not figure out why the profiles weren’t working as I thought they would until I was viewing the log file in my text editor, which uses a monospace font (Consolas is my current favorite, I used to use Lucida Console, and switched away from Courier because of its confusing glyphs for “1”, “l”, and “0”, “O”).

Please change the MCEBuddy profile property input/entry fields to display in a monospace font in order to better disambiguate some of the characters common in regexes, like “,”,“.”,“;”,“”“,”'" and “:”.

**Steps to replicate the bug:**  
View a profile and enter several of the punctuation characters as in the above examples to see how indistinguishable they are from each other.

“\*;~\*DT,~\*DT2;~\*DT3;~\*DT4,~\*DT5” vs “`*;~*DT,~*DT2;~*DT3;~*DT4,~*DT5`”  
(I missed the commas instead of semicolons).  
or “1”,“l”,“|”,“0”,“O”,“,”,“.”,“;”,“”“,”'" and “:” vs “`"1","l","|","0","O",",",".",";",""","'" and ":"`”