The console prints complete giberish

Henning

Hi, I've tryed 3.3.6, 3.3.7, 32 and 64 bit but the console is always completly unreadable. println("Hello") prints as: (?FFl but when i copy paste the giberish into another program it reads fine again. So just the display in Processing is broken. I'm using German Windows 10 if that information helps. Is this a known bug?

koogs

We've seen something like that before, caused by a font clash.

https://forum.processing.org/two/discussion/20481/my-welcome-screen-is-corrupted

Try that.

Note that the distance between l and o and the distance between F and I is the same so it's transposing characters like a Caesar cipher. But that doesn't help 8)

Henning

That doesn't seem to be the problem. At least not that font.

jeremydouglass

Well, the console font is different from the welcome screen font in that previous problem. So perhaps it might be the same problem but a different font...?

Henning

Do you know the name of the font? I have neither Source Sans Pro nor Source Code Pro in my Fonts folder.

jeremydouglass

I don't. If nobody on the forum has suggestions, you might consider filing a bug report here:

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/

and optionally referencing the past issue.

https://github.com/processing/processing/issues/4747

These seems like something that might be good to document as an issue in any case, in case somebody else encounters the same problem -- or if the cause becomes evident.

kfrajer

You should remove Processing and any of its dependencies(make a backup of your stuff of course!) and re-install it by downloading the zip again from the site. If that does not solve the problem, please documented here and cross-link this post with your github ticket.

Kf

Henning

I tried reinstalling first. I found out that I can just change the font and now it works. I don’t have any of the standard Processing fonts in my windows fonts folder, so I guess the issue lies wherever Processing saves its fonts.