[racket-dev] unicode Delta vs unicode increment

Lets just double check. This expression is supposed to return 8710, right?

#lang racket
(require mrlib/tex-table)
(char->integer (string-ref (list-ref (assoc "Delta" tex-shortcut-table) 1) 0))

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 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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