Garbled Text: Windows / JUCE 6

[otristan]

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Windows10 issue with system custom fonts overrides in Graphics::drawText (+workaround)

I noticed that when a custom font is installed in windows os, the call to Graphics::drawText is not using the font set with setFont but overrides it with the installed custom font from windows. Steps to reproduce: 1/ Search on google the font “Google Font: EB Garamond” 2/ Download and Install them 3/ Graphics::drawText does not work properly anymore Workaround (sort of) : The workaround for this is to replace the g.drawText() by a custom method creating a textLayout, I place it is my main …

I’m baffled how the Juce team has been skipping those issues and general font issue those past month.