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. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]