Re: [Gnumed-devel] nice little python beginner job

[Sebastian Hilbert]

Am Dienstag 01 Juni 2010, 10:39:59 schrieb Karsten Hilbert:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 07:34:16AM +0200, Hilbert, Sebastian wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> If you want to be sure you got all the symbols GNUmed uses
> you would want to use the .u_something constants found in
> pycommon/gmTools.
> 

This is a neat little exercise for an absolute python beginner. Find all 
constants (see above) and extend the little program I attached earlier.

Sebastian