This one time, at band camp, Fulko van Westrenen wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> This one time, at band camp, Fulko van Westrenen wrote:
>> >I try to display a degree character using glut in python2.3-opengl.
>> >This worked fine until a recent upgrade (I have no idea when it started
>> >failing, it woked fine in November). Instead of a degree I get '*'.
>> 
>> I'm absolutely certain that the GLUT API is not unicode, and never has been.
>> Every non-printable non-ASCII character has been drawn as an asterisk.
>
>Hello Jamie,
>
>I looked into this once more. I have old versions of python-opengl that
>will show the "extended" ascii range, including the characters with indexes
>above 127. The current version only has the 7-bit characters. Is there a
>reason for this? Is there a quick fix, temporary workaround, or dirty
>hack?

I don't know if there is a reason for this; but a workaround would be to
downgrade your glut and python-opengl packages to a version that does what
you want.


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