So what is the solution ? I tried fedora 16, fedora 18, fedora 19 (gnome3), all give the same result a \Phi is shown when a \Delta should be displayed. Thank. > > 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > 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 =========================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ | | email: pdupre@xxxxxxx Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère | | Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale | | Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 | | Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann | | 59140 Dunkerque, France =========================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
