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Hi,

I'm using pygame to build a screen, which has some system information on it.
The text I am printing on screen contains a TAB (\t).
When I run my code the screen is rendered and the text is shown, but the TAB is renderen as a question mark.

I don't know what to do to render this TAB (\t) correctly in pygame. See my code below.

import os
import pygame
import platform
import sys
import distro
from netifaces import interfaces, ifaddresses, AF_INET

def bootsplash():
    for ifaceName in interfaces():
        if(ifaceName != "lo"):
            addresses = [i['addr'] for i in ifaddresses(ifaceName).setdefault(AF_INET, [{'addr':'No IP addr'}] )]
            stripaddress = addresses
    kernel = platform.uname().release
    python = sys.version.split('\n')[0]
    system = platform.system()
    os = distro.linux_distribution()[0]

    osstrings = f"Python versie:\t {python} \r\nKernel versie:\t {kernel} \r\nSystem:\t\t {system} \r\nOperating System: {os} \r\nIP address:\t {stripaddress}"
    print("Python versie:\t",python,"\r\nKernel versie:\t",kernel,"\r\nSystem:\t\t",system,"\r\nOperating System:",os,"\r\nIP address:\t",stripaddress)
    return osstrings


RUNNING = True
while RUNNING:
    try:
        splashtext = bootsplash().split('\r\n')
        #print (os)
        pygame.init()
        pygame.mouse.set_visible(False)
        font = pygame.font.SysFont("monospace", 32)

        displayinfo = pygame.display.Info()

        screen = pygame.display.set_mode((displayinfo.current_w, displayinfo.current_h))
        pygame.display.set_caption('Bootsplash')

        regeltext1 = font.render(splashtext[0],True,(0,0,0))
        regeltext2 = font.render(splashtext[1],True,(0,0,0))
        regeltext3 = font.render(splashtext[2],True,(0,0,0))
        regeltext4 = font.render(splashtext[3],True,(0,0,0))
        regeltext5 = font.render(splashtext[4],True,(0,0,0))
        screen.fill((255,255,255))
        
        screen.blit(regeltext1,(100, 100))
        screen.blit(regeltext2,(100, 125))
        screen.blit(regeltext3,(100, 150))
        screen.blit(regeltext4,(100, 175))
        screen.blit(regeltext5,(100, 200))
       
        pygame.display.update()

        # for event in pygame.event.get():
        #     if event.type == pygame.QUIT():
        #         RUNNING = False
    
    except KeyboardInterrupt:
        pygame.QUIT()
        sys.exit()

pygame.QUIT()
sys.exit()

I hope somebody can help me figuring this out.

Kind regards,
Lightframe109

In GUI you cant just put a /t and expect it to print out a tab like it does in the console/terminal. You have to literally push it over some number of pixels to the right.... in the same manner that you pushed each line down on the X axis in increments of 25 pixels to simulate newlines.

lightframe109

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