[racket-dev] unicode Delta vs unicode increment

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Mon Dec 10 12:30:30 EST 2012

No, I think this commit is actually right. I got confused, and I
managed to confuse Robby...

At Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:26:42 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
> I recently pushed this commit:
> 
> http://git.racket-lang.org/plt/commit/6babc9ec56d60fba9f3fe6969901a378da266f82
> 
> that changes DrRacket's reponse to typing \Delta<tex-compress-shortcut>.
> 
> I see now, however, that this commit changed it FROM U+0394 to U+2206,
> ie from Delta to Increment. Here's the chars in question:
> 
>   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2206/index.htm
>   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/394/index.htm
> 
> But I think this is backwards and the pull request commentary suggests
> that there might be some confusion.
> 
> So I think I should probably revert this commit and stick with \Delta
> as the actual Delta character.
> 
> Am I getting this right? Or am I backwards yet again...?
> 
> Thanks,
> Robby
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