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! <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Robby Findler <<a href="mailto:robby@eecs.northwestern.edu" target="_blank">robby@eecs.northwestern.edu</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">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 <div><div class="h5"> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, Clement Erik Ferguson <<a href="mailto:clementraphael@gmail.com">clementraphael@gmail.com</a>> 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! > </div></div>> ____________________ > Racket Users list: > <a href="http://lists.racket-lang.org/users" target="_blank">http://lists.racket-lang.org/users</a> > </blockquote></div> </div>