Illustrator CC on Windows thinks it's a Macintosh

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summary

I just recognized that font names behave strange in different applications. Since I'm on Windows, I gave several tools a try.

My Illustrator CC seems to think it's running on Macintosh :-)

overview

* On Windows 10 Font Viewer, font selection is the font name and PDF export is the window title.

application	font selection*	PDF export*
Windows 10 Font Viewer*	a	c
Affinity Designer v1	a	b
Illustrator CC	d	b
Indesign CC	a	b
Photoshop CC	a	b
Word 365	a	b

attribute overview

a = <namerecord nameID="1" platformID="3" platEncID="1" langID="0x409">
b = <namerecord nameID="6" platformID="3" platEncID="1" langID="0x409">
c = <namerecord nameID="4" platformID="3" platEncID="1" langID="0x409">
d = <namerecord nameID="4" platformID="1" platEncID="0" langID="0x0" unicode="True">

attribute decoded

a = Windows, Unicode BMP, English (United States)
b = Windows, Unicode BMP, English (United States)
c = Windows, Unicode BMP, English (United States)
d = Macintosh, Roman, English