[Gnumed-devel] GNUmed unboxed on Windows

[Sebastian Hilbert]

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.

Only GNU Unifont and Code 2000 (Shareware) seem to display all characters.

DejaVu Sans seems to be a safe default for our needs.

Sebastian
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