mIRC seems to be inconsistent within itself as to the size of fonts it displays. It is true that other programs don't seem to agree on what a given font size means, but in mIRC, characters within a single line can even appear at different sizes. I guess i can't say for certain how long it has been this way, as only recently have i noticed this. I'm on 7.19.
I have chosen a font size of 10 in mIRC. mIRC displays most characters at what my browsers would consider to be 13. Wordpad considers it to be 10. However, certain characters, such as 'ಠ', are displayed at the same size the browser would display them at if set to 10, which ends up being quite small compared to the rest of the text in mIRC. I wonder why the numbers don't match, and especially why the font sizes don't behave the same as in Chrome, Firefox, and Wordpad.
My explanation is probably poor, but these three images should adequately demonstrate the differences. Again, note that the font size in mIRC and Wordpad are both 10. My chosen font is Lucida Console.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k191/Corrodias/Screenshot-2011-10-14_010427.pnghttp://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k191/Corrodias/Screenshot-2011-10-14_010309.pnghttp://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k191/Corrodias/Screenshot-2011-10-14_015956.png
