Character encoding: UTF-8

Character encoding is a major issue in computer systems, as different languages need a huge amount of different characters, see the amusing blog of Joel Spolsky:

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode …

More about encoding can be found in Wikipedia:UTF-8. UTF-8 encoding tables can be found within the wikipedia article and a comparison with the first 256 characters of unicode is provided at UTF-8 char table.

For short, Exudyn uses UTF-8 character encoding in texts / strings drawn in OpenGL renderer window. However, the set of available UTF-8 characters in Exudyn is restricted to a very small set of characters (as compared to available characters in UTF-8). For an example of available UTF-8 characters, see examples/solutionViewerTest.py.

Greek characters include all lower case characters (including variations) and only upper case characters, which are different from latin characters: \(\alpha, \beta, \gamma, ... \sigma, \varphi, \varepsilon; \Gamma, \Delta, \Theta, \Lambda, \Xi, \Pi, \Sigma, \Phi, \Psi, {\mathbf{O}}ega\).