From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, zephyr.pellerin@gmail.com, 22919@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:07:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fuw1rm0z.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ydh9ghjuww.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Glenn Morris on Tue, 08 Mar 2016 02:22:39 -0500)
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, zephyr.pellerin@gmail.com, 22919@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 02:22:39 -0500
>
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> >> See eg ruler-mode-fill-column-char and how it uses char-displayable-p.
> >
> > That might not work well on a TTY, though.
>
> In the sense that on a tty char-displayable-p may return nil when the
> answer is actually t? If so, I don't think that matters.
> Or vice versa?
The latter. On a TTY, that function can only check whether the
terminal encoding supports the character, but it has no way of knowing
whether the terminal emulator will find a glyph in its font for the
particular character.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-03-08 16:07 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
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 [this message]
2020-09-15 16:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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