Re: [Visualpython-users] Greek text

[Bruce S. <Bru...@nc...>]

Here's a specific example (I hadn't realized this worked with the beta 
version on Linux):

from visual import *
label(text=u'\u03a3') # displays capital sigma

But this isn't currently supported on the beta version for Windows.

Bruce Sherwood

Jonathan Brandmeyer wrote:
> Of note, the Linux 4.betaX releases should support UTF strings by
> default in labels.
> 
> -Jonathan
> 
> On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 10:14 -0700, Bruce Sherwood wrote:
> 
>>In the beta version of VPython (see the Recent developments section of 
>>vpython.org) you can do the following:
>>
>>label(text="S", font="symbol") # displays capital sigma
>>
>>Until this beta version you couldn't specify a font for a label.
>>
>>This is a limited capability which doesn't apply (for example) to window 
>>titles. It also doesn't immediately apply to labels in visual.graph or 
>>visual.controls, but those modules are pure Python code, so one could 
>>easily introduce a font option into those labels.
>>
>>Bruce Sherwood
>>
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