[racket-dev] weirdest bug ever

From: Pierpaolo Bernardi (olopierpa at gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jan 17 12:54:25 EST 2013

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 4:46 PM, Ben Goetter <goetter at mazama.net> wrote:

> On Windows, Courier New (the default font for the drracket output pane) does
> not support U+2144.  When I set the output pane to use a font that does
> support this character, such as Segoe UI Symbol, U+2144 displays in the
> correct bounding box, e.g. (display (string #\a (integer->char #x2144)
> #\c)).  So it has something to do with how DrRacket on Windows switches
> fonts to display symbol characters.

AHA! Now it's much less misterious.

Thanks!

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