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

[Gavin Smith]

On Sun, Nov 13, 2022 at 06:59:32AM +0000, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> 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.
> 
> > I did investigate if something could be done inside the PDF output
> > to make the copiable text differ from the displayed text, using a
> > feature called ActualText (available in PDF standard from version
> > 1.5 onwards), but it seemed far more trouble than it was worth.
> 
> 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