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lulz it depends on so many things, like whether the fonts are monospaced or not, and even then, what fonts you're using (Is it called Fixedsys?), and where... This has been an issue for me as well in programming. I don't believe the size of the characters is store anywhere, but we could say 12 point characters would be 8 pixels wide, since that is a power of 2 (don't ask why would that matter, I'm making educated guesses...). But that can only be applied to monospaced fonts, where every letter and character has the same width. The one I'm using right now is Times New Roman, where for example the letters I and O aren't equally wide. Courier New is an example of monospaced fonts, where I and O have the same width. Not sure if I understood your problem, but I tried to summarize my experiences.