Failed to retrieve "console font-size" using "GetCurrentConsoleFont()" in "Windows XP"?

Question

I compiled this code without any errors and warnings with GCC mingw32:

#define WINVER 0x0500
#include <windows.h>
HWND StdHandle = GetStdHandle (STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE);
CONSOLE_FONT_INFO GETFONT;
GetCurrentConsoleFont (StdHandle, FALSE, &GETFONT);
if (GETFONT.dwFontSize.X != 8 || GETFONT.dwFontSize.Y != 12)
  printf ("Font-Size is not 8 x 12");
else
  printf("Font-Size is 8 x 12");

It runs perfectly in Windows 7.

But, when it runs in Windows XP and I adjust the console font-size to "8 x 12", GETFONT.dwFontSize.X always equals 80, and GETFONT.dwFontSize.Y always equals 25.

Then, I added

DWORD ErrorCode = GetLastError();

And, it returns 0x0 (ERROR_SUCCESS(:The operation completed successfully.))

Why it always get the wrong value when using GetCurrentConsoleFont in Windows XP?

Answer 1

BOOL WINAPI GetCurrentConsoleFont (HANDLE hConsoleOutput, BOOL bMaximumWindow, PCONSOLE_FONT_INFO lpConsoleCurrentFont);
COORD WINAPI GetConsoleFontSize (HANDLE hConsoleOutput, DWORD nFont);

CONSOLE_FONT_INFO GETFONT;
GetCurrentConsoleFont (StdHandle, FALSE, &GETFONT);
COORD Fontsize = GetConsoleFontSize (StdHandle, GETFONT.nFont);
SHORT Font_X = Fontsize.X;
SHORT Font_Y = Fontsize.Y;
if (Font_X != 8 || Font_Y != 12)
{
     printf ("Font-Size is not 8 x 12");
}

Answer 2

MSDN documentation on CONSOLE_FONT_INFO says

To obtain the size of the font, pass the font index to the GetConsoleFontSize function.