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 <clementraph...@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! > > ____________________ > Racket Users list: > http://lists.racket-lang.org/users > ____________________ Racket Users list: http://lists.racket-lang.org/users
