Of course it works. You need to add it to the Windows Path before executing. There are detailed instructions over here.
What kind of birthday should Hugo Extended know? 
In any case we cannot know what you mean in your post above without you providing a link to the source code of your project, or if you cannot share the actual project, then please share a project that reproduces the issue you encountered with dummy content.
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