Wingdings characters in graph

[Zachary Neal]

I want to use a single Wingdings character in a graph, specifically I want the telephone icon as an axis tick label at the 0 position. The open parenthesis character corresponds to the telephone icon in the Wingdings character map, but when I use
xlabel(0 `"{fontface "Wingdings": (}"')
I just get an ordinary open parenthesis, not the corresponding Wingdings character. The fontface command seems to be working, because when I use:
xlabel(0 `"{fontface "Comic Sans MS": (}"')
I get an open parenthesis from in Comic Sans font.

NOTE: In the example code above, there's a space between the : and (. I've tried it with and without this space. Here, I include the space only because without it, the Statalist post automatically converts it to a frown emoji,

Thanks,
Zachary

[Andrea Discacciati]

NOTE: In the example code above, there's a space between the : and (. I've tried it with and without this space. Here, I include the space only because without it, the Statalist post automatically converts it to a frown emoji,

that’s what the CODE delimiters are for:

xlabel(0 `"{fontface "Wingdings":(}"')

[David Radwin]

What do you get when you try

twoway (function y=x^2, xlabel(0 `"{fontface "Wingdings": (}"'))

For me it looks like this, with a phone icon at x=0:

[Zachary Neal]

Thanks - that's exactly what I was hoping to generate. But, when I use (in Stata 13):

twoway (function y=x^2, xlabel(0 `"{fontface "Wingdings": (}"'))

I get:

[David Radwin]

Darn. Unfortunately, I don't have a good answer. I am running the current version (15.1) of Stata/MP for Windows, but even so, I don't know why version would make a difference, especially since you are able to correctly render characters in other fonts.

My only guess (which is not very promising) is to try other approaches to see if there might be a problem with the Wingdings font, such as

twoway (function y=x^2, title(`"{fontface "Wingdings": The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.}"'))

[Zachary Neal]

Thanks, David! I was able to get it working on another machine (also running version 13), which makes me think it has something to do with font installations, and not Stata. Thanks again!