busmanus wrote:
Hannes Mayer wrote:
Hi all!
So far I used a greek nu with a diacritical line above to create
the sign for an anti-neutrino. But I discovered that diacritical
marks are rendered incorrectly in Mozilla on Linux - the diacritical
mark is right of the character, instead above - and Konqueror
doesn't display diacritical marks at all.
Check if you use the latest stable version of these programs.
If so, report the problem to the developers as a bug.
Actually, this is part of a more general problem of rendering
"decomposed" combinations, which they should be aware of
by themselves. Also, there should already be some bug reports
lying around in their databases with similar problems, so
the most useful would be if you could add your comment
to one of the existing bug reports as a "vote" on the bug.
Of course, if you need the character quickly, you will just
need to fall back on the programs you previously used.
Or you may choose to insert the formulae in a graphical
representation.
Thank you for your reply!! :-)
I already added comments to a bug at bugzilla.mozilla.org.
The problem seems to persist since at least 2002(!).
Well, for the time being I think I'll write a parser for my
web documents, which will substitute the characters with diacritical
lines into images. When the bug is fixed, I simply can disable the
parser and the documents are displayed in their original state.
Is there a single sign for an anti-neutrino in unicode ?
I've searched the code charts, but without luck.
I don't think so, but let the more knowledgeable say for sure...
So far all documents I've seen do have only images (mostly converted
from latex), but I can't imagine that noone involved in particle
physics uses unicode.
BTW, just out of curiosity, if one proposes a new character, and it
is approved, how long does it take until that new character is avail-
able in the most common fonts ?
Thank you!
Best regards,
Hannes / Austria
