[racket] text/font not rendering symbol fonts on WinXP

Oops, replace FONT-SIZE with whatever size font you want... sorry, I pasted
that from code in something I'm working on!


On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 3:02 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson <
clementraphael at gmail.com> wrote:

> Now I'm experiencing the same problem in Ubuntu 12.10. No symbol fonts
> render when using text/font; I only get the latin text equivalent. I tried
> this using the Dingbats font built into Ubuntu along with custom symbol
> fonts I had downloaded. Both Dingbats and the other symbol fonts I
> downloaded work fine in other programs.
>
> The system where this did work correctly was an Ubuntu 12.04 machine
> (running under a VM). The Ubuntu 12.10 machine I'm using now is a fresh OS
> installation using the 64-bit binary downloaded from the Racket site.
>
> Is anyone else using Ubuntu 12.10? Can you try running the following code?
>
> (require 2htdp/image)
> (text/font "test" FONT-SIZE "black" "Dingbats" 'symbol 'normal 'normal #f)
>
> This should render some triangles and a snowflake, not "test".
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robby Findler <
> robby at eecs.northwestern.edu> wrote:
>
>> The text/font function ultimately just calls find-or-create-font with
>> the font details and then draw-string on the dc<%> with the string, so
>> I guess that this is either a problem at that level of the Racket GUI
>> system, or something that is just different about how Windows works
>> from other platforms. (Sorry I don't know the right answer here.)
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson
>> <clementraphael at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm a newcomer to Racket and I ran into a problem with the text/font
>> > function in 2htdp/image. stamourv on #racket helped me diagnose this,
>> and it
>> > seems to be a problem confined to Windows XP. When using text/font with
>> a
>> > symbol font like Wingdings or Symbol (standard symbol fonts included
>> with
>> > Windows) the character is not rendered. Instead, I get whatever the
>> > equivalent Roman character would be.
>> >
>> > For instance:
>> >
>> > (define testingfont
>> >   (text/font "012abc" 36 "black"
>> >              "Wingdings" 'default 'normal 'normal #f))
>> >
>> > If I then type testingfont into the interactions window, instead of
>> > rendering a series of symbols I get the input string 012abc instead. I
>> also
>> > tried using 'symbol instead of 'default. We tried the same code on
>> Debian
>> > (stamourv) and Ubuntu (me) and it worked fine on those platforms.
>> >
>> > I'm running Windows XP 32-bit, and I am using Racket 5.3.1.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
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