The console prints complete giberish

edited April 2018 in Using Processing

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?

Answers

  • 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)

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

  • 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...?

  • edited April 2018

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

  • edited April 2018

    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.

  • 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

  • Answer ✓

    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.

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