From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
To: Zephyr Pellerin <zephyr.pellerin@gmail.com>
Cc: 22919@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root
Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2016 16:58:49 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8737s4xi3q.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56DB9DCA.1080308@gmail.com>
Whilst i like the aesthetics of using the actual square root
symbol
rather than 'V', i use character sets and fonts that make this
character available. Not everyone does, however, and this change
would result in
those people getting something like the equivalent of the Unicode
REPLACEMENT CHARACTER, � (0xFFFD), or a blank space. So i would
like to suggest this patch not be applied without also either
adding a way to customise which character gets used as the square
root symbol, or logic to only display a square root glyph when
it's certain it's available.
Alexis.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-06 5:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-06 3:02 bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root Zephyr Pellerin
2016-03-06 5:58 ` Alexis [this message]
2016-03-07 16:46 ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-07 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-03-08 7:22 ` Glenn Morris
2016-03-08 16:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-15 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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