From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 10:01:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519B29DA.8000401@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130520213652.GA13697@khaled-laptop>
On 5/20/2013 11:36 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:22:41PM +0200, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>>
>> My suggestion is to just use \phys_units_text_* always, since the
>> decomposed, two characters is the preferred form for those two units.
>
> “In normal use, it is better to represent degrees Celsius ‘°C’ with a
> sequence of U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN + U+0043 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C, rather
> than U+2103 DEGREE CELSIUS. For searching, treat these two sequences as
> identical. Similarly, the sequence U+00B0 DEGREE SIGN + U+0046 LATIN
> CAPITAL LETTER F is preferred over U+2109 DEGREE FAHRENHEIT, and those
> two sequences should be treated as identical for searching.”
>
> http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.2.0/ch15.pdf#G20445
Searching should be ok due to the tonunicode that mentions the two
characters ... how about the visual aspect? Should we care about?
It's no problem to make an option to always use the split version.
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 20:29 Romain Diss
2013-05-20 20:57 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-05-20 21:03 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-20 21:04 ` Romain Diss
2013-05-20 21:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-20 21:22 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-20 21:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-21 8:01 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2013-05-21 8:09 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-21 12:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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