GNU bug report logs - #22919
calc should use square root symbol to denote square root

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Zephyr Pellerin <zephyr.pellerin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2016 03:08:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: fixed

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at 22919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Alexis <flexibeast <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Zephyr Pellerin <zephyr.pellerin <at> gmail.com>, 22919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square
 root
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 11:46:25 -0500

Alexis wrote:

> 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.

See eg ruler-mode-fill-column-char and how it uses char-displayable-p.
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