How to add Greek letters (or other special characters) into an IDL widget button

The IDLDE Editor supports some UTF-8 characters, but the IDL Console and Widgets do not, so you may see differences in the way some characters are displayed in different areas of IDL. Widgets can be especially tricky since they use device (system) fonts. You will be at the mercy of the available fonts on your operating system as to what... Read More >