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

[Werner LEMBERG]

>> Interesting.  Using either evince 41.3 or okular 21.12.3 on my
>> GNU/Linux box, copy and paste works correctly.
>> 
>> What PDF viewer is problematic for you?
> 
> evince 3.36.10.

OK, thanks.

>> This is a nice idea, since PDF version 1.5 is the standard format
>> of pdftex nowadays.  I think it would be worth to be put on
>> `texinfo.tex`'s TODO list.
> 
> There is a LaTeX package "accsup" (https://ctan.org/pkg/accsupp)
> which would have to be ported; however, it's still labelled as
> "experimental", and there are various reports of problems with
> different PDF readers:
> 
> https://github.com/ho-tex/accsupp/issues/2

Well, yes, but the intended use case of `AccSupp`, namely to provide a
copy-and-paste entity for a single glyph, is exactly what would be
needed for `texinfo.tex`.


    Werner