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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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 22919 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, zephyr.pellerin <at> gmail.com, flexibeast <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#22919: calc should use square root symbol to denote square root
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2016 18:07:24 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: flexibeast <at> gmail.com,  zephyr.pellerin <at> gmail.com,  22919 <at> 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.
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