Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN)

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Consistent with what exactly?
> 
> to have ° and @textdegree{} give the same output with Texinfo TeX.

OK.

>> Does this map back to U+00B0 for cut and paste?
> 
> No.  But neither does the current output, which uses ringaccent and
> therefore maps to the corresponding character 'COMBINING RING ABOVE'
> (U+030A).

OK, right.

> You probably disagree with many renderings of similar characters,
> then as the rendering is based on math mode, and in many case does
> not lead to fixed width characters (for U+00AE, U+00B1, U+00B2,
> U+00B3...).

Well, contrary to the Unicode cmap values I think *this* could be
improved.  Or do you see any technical reason that prevents putting
these math characters into boxes with a fixed width?  It slightly
complicates the definitions, but it is probably worth the effort.


    Werner