[racket-dev] unicode Delta vs unicode increment

Argh. I confuse easily. I think what's currently pushed is right. Knock on wood.

Robby

On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> No --- it should be 916 (= #x394), which is Greek uppercase delta.
>
> At Mon, 10 Dec 2012 11:34:13 -0600, Robby Findler wrote:
>> 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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