[PD] unicode symbols and Pd

[Christof Ressi]

> Are you saying that
> utf-8-support is fully implemented, but Pd's font doesn't contain all
> symbols?
Yes.

> On a minimal Debian Buster where I basically only installed Pd 0.51.3
> from backports, I cannot display many symbols in Pd, although the same
> symbols are displayed correctly in the terminal. See attached
> screenshot with a clef example.
Well, your terminal obviously uses a different font. Just make sure that 
the Unicode codepoint you want to use is actually supported by the font 
that is used by Pd (DVSM on Windows/Linux, Menlo on macOS)

Christof

On 18.01.2021 13:48, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> On Mon, 2021-01-18 at 12:43 +0100, IOhannes m zmölnig wrote:
>> afaik, the only thing that does not work¹ are emojis. while they are
>> technically just unicode symbols, it seems that i cannot enter them
>> (although they are displayed correctly, if you get them into the
>> patch
> Saying "the only thing that does not work" implies everything else
> works. I'm not sure what you exactly mean by that. Are you saying that
> utf-8-support is fully implemented, but Pd's font doesn't contain all
> symbols? Or do you even mean all utf-8 can be displayed in Pd (except
> emojis)?
>
> On a minimal Debian Buster where I basically only installed Pd 0.51.3
> from backports, I cannot display many symbols in Pd, although the same
> symbols are displayed correctly in the terminal. See attached
> screenshot with a clef example.
>
> I don't have a problem with Pd's utf-8 support per se, but according to
> your statement I wonder what is expected and what is a bug.
>
> Roman
>
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