QGIS 3.14 Pi vs 3.14 π

[uclaros]

Feature description.
Since the community meeting locations in previous versions use the local alphabet with special chars, like București, A Coruña or Nødebo, wouldn't it be more classy to use the greek letter π for the release name?

[DelazJ]

@uclaros Would this not be better exposed in (psc? dev?) mailing-list?

[uclaros]

Possibly maybe!
Could you reference this on the psc mailing list as an Honorable voting member?

[DelazJ]

Done. Not as a voting member but as someone who finds the suggestion interesting. I don't think that being a voting member has any weight here.
Let's see what comes out of it.

[uclaros]

Thanks! Well, I meant as a voting member you would already be registered and allowed to post on the mailing list.

[nyalldawson]

I'd caution against this. We've had a lot of issues with unicode characters in the release name in the past, and I'm not sure they have all been resolved. It's also very hard to search for a name like this...!

[NathanW2]

I agree with Nyall. Fine to have it in the display for the splash but some people might not know that symbol and also the Unicode issue is just too risky as the official release name.

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[DelazJ]

Fair point, Nyall 😞

[uclaros]

some people might not know that symbol

Legitimate question here: do you guys teach π at school as π or as pi? I mean with pencil and paper, you write 2 x pi x r? Because in Greece pi is only recognized by people with a software developer background, while π is pretty much common knowledge.

the Unicode issue is just too risky as the official release name

Well, we are almost eight months in with two different Unicode release names...

It's also very hard to search for a name like this

That is true, if you don't have a greek keyboard layout! Otoh, the pi keyword will probably mostly fetch results regarding the raspberry pi sbc and running QGIS on it.

[agiudiceandrea]

Well, we are almost eight months in with two different Unicode release names...

Please see this unresolved bug for 'București' #35453 and this, fixed, for 'A Coruña' #32740
and also e.g. an unreported issue with the exported pdf properties

[anitagraser]

I agree with the requests for caution here. I'd be open to using the π character on the splash screen but I think the official name should be pi.

[uclaros]

I'd be open to using the π character on the splash screen but I think the official name should be pi.

I'd de happy with a serifed π only on the splash!

[anitagraser]