From ae13f87f0376e08b2995b31face0e4295872f1d9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: John Emmas <john@creativepost.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:17:55 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] It's a bit of a rigmarole for GTK to display an infinity sign
 when building with MSVC :-(

---
 gtk2_ardour/rc_option_editor.cc | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gtk2_ardour/rc_option_editor.cc b/gtk2_ardour/rc_option_editor.cc
index 6ea12525c5..cacdf13e52 100644
--- a/gtk2_ardour/rc_option_editor.cc
+++ b/gtk2_ardour/rc_option_editor.cc
@@ -1151,7 +1151,12 @@ public:
 		_label.set_alignment (1.0, 0.5); // match buttons below
 		_hscale.set_digits (0);
 		_hscale.set_draw_value(false);
+#ifdef COMPILER_MSVC
+		std::wstring infin = L"\u221e";  // infinity
+		_hscale.add_mark(   0,  Gtk::POS_TOP, g_utf16_to_utf8(reinterpret_cast<gunichar2 const*>(infin.c_str()), -1, NULL, NULL, NULL));
+#else
 		_hscale.add_mark(   0,  Gtk::POS_TOP, _("\u221e")); // infinity
+#endif
 		_hscale.add_mark( 300,  Gtk::POS_TOP, _("30 sec"));
 		_hscale.add_mark( 600,  Gtk::POS_TOP, _("1 min"));
 		_hscale.add_mark(1200,  Gtk::POS_TOP, _("2 mins"));