Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed unboxed on Windows

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:34:16AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:

> As I have written before Windows XP displays some boxes for characters it 
> does not know how to draw. That affects GNUmed because some symbols are used 
> such as a signing hand or a plus/minus sign.
> 
> The solution (only applicable to Windows) is to tell GNUmed to use a certain 
> font that knows about those characters.
> 
> See attached short program that tests different fonts.
> 
> When you run this in Windows you might see a few or a lot boxes depending on 
> if you have the font installed.

If you want to be sure you got all the symbols GNUmed uses
you would want to use the .u_something constants found in
pycommon/gmTools.

Karsten
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