On 11/29/13 08:36, Tim wrote: > Allegedly, on or about 29 November 2013, Ed Greshko sent: >> One interesting thing I discovered, at least on my F19 system, is if I >> highlight (copy) the Phi and then paste it into a terminal the >> resulting character is a delta. > That seriously points to it being a broken font, then. > > What's on the page is an instruction to print character number whatever. > Depending on what's in the font, will be what you see. > > If you copy and paste the text, you're copying the data about which > (numbered) characters are there. It'd take something that copies the > data, plus the formatting, and re-applies the same formatting (and > therefor same font), for an error to be repeated. > > The original poster could test that out in any editor that lets them > change fonts. Type the character out several times, and change the font > for each of them, separately. When you pick a broken font, it'll change > what it looks like. >
Agreed.... And, FWIW.... ∅ = U+2205 (What I see on one system) ∆ = U+2206 (What I see on a working system and what it is when looking at the bits) -- Getting tired of non-Fedora discussions and self-serving posts -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
