RFE: add U+2031 "PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN" glyph ("‱")

[poettering]

I recently ran into some problems with a terminal program using the permyriad (aka "PER TEN THOUSAND SIGN") glyph. As it turns out Source Code Pro lacks the glyph which triggered some problems in the terminal implementation (for details see this: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/vte/-/issues/330

Long story short, would be excellent if Source Code Pro would carry a glyph for permyriad ("‱")

[kenmcd]

Long story short, would be excellent if Source Code Pro would carry a glyph for permyriad ("‱")

A curiosity question ... how/where is this character used? What is the use case?
Thanks.

[poettering]

In the systemd project some resource control settings may be configured with fractions. We started out making this configurable by specifying percent, but eventually people wanted greater granularity hence we now accept permille and permyriad too.

(Usually it's easier to type in percent with two places after the dot though, admittedly, but it sounded fun accepting the unicode characters too. ;-))

see here for the documentation of one such feature:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/man/oomd.conf.xml#L53

[poettering]

And here's he source code that implements the parse for this:

https://github.com/systemd/systemd/blob/main/src/basic/percent-util.c#L135

It's currently hard to look at in a terminal, due to the missing glyph.

[pauldhunt]

I’ll add this in the next update (which I am currently working on).

[poettering]

That'd be excellent! Thank you!