Re: [O] BUG: swapped utf-8 symbols in org-entities

[Nick Dokos]

Rasmus <ras...@gmx.us> writes:

> Konstantin Kliakhandler <ko...@slumpy.org> writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The unicode letters for 'varphi' and for 'phi' are swapped.
>>
>> Here is a patch correcting this:
>>
>> diff --git a/lisp/org-entities.el b/lisp/org-entities.el
>> index 4044432..6f6d054 100644
>> --- a/lisp/org-entities.el
>> +++ b/lisp/org-entities.el
>> @@ -204,9 +204,8 @@ packages to be loaded, add these packages to
>> `org-latex-packages-alist'."
>>      ("upsih" "\\Upsilon" t "&upsih;" "upsilon" "upsilon" "ϒ")
>>      ("upsilon" "\\upsilon" t "&upsilon;" "upsilon" "upsilon" "υ")
>>      ("Phi" "\\Phi" t "&Phi;" "Phi" "Phi" "Φ")
>> -    ("phi" "\\phi" t "&phi;" "phi" "phi" "φ")
>> -    ("varphi" "\\varphi" t "&varphi;" "varphi" "varphi" "ɸ")
>> +    ("phi" "\\phi" t "&phi;" "phi" "phi" "ɸ")
>> +    ("varphi" "\\varphi" t "&varphi;" "varphi" "varphi" "φ")
>
> It's not straight forward.
>
> The behavior is "correct" with reference to (La)TeX.  E.g.
>
>     M-x set-input-method RET TeX RET
>
> Then,
>
>     \phi → φ
>     \varphi → ϕ
>

That's not what Lamport says (p.41, 2nd ed.) Maybe the input method
got it wrong?

> Your suggestion is correct with reference to HTML.
>
> I’d tend to favor the TeX interpretation even if it’s technically wrong.
>
> Rasmus

-- 
Nick