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calculator doesn't understand multiplication sign #1614

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pkar70 opened this issue Jul 21, 2021 · 3 comments
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calculator doesn't understand multiplication sign #1614

pkar70 opened this issue Jul 21, 2021 · 3 comments
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pkar70 commented Jul 21, 2021

Describe the bug
Calculator understand "asterisk" (U+002A) as multiplication, but it doesn't understand "multiplication" (U+00D7). Similarly, it understand "solidus" (U+002F) as a division, but doesn't understand "division" (U+00F7) nor "division slash" (U+2215). Also it doesn't understand U+2044, "fraction slash".

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Open calculator, and try to enter e.g. "2×2"

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  • OS Build: 10.0.19043.1083
  • Architecture: x86, 64 bit
  • Application Version: 10.2103.8.0
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I can make PR for this, but I have no time to dig in code to find where is keyboard handled. If anyone give me hint (name of source file), I would create PR with appropriate changes.

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Thanks for the submission! This appears to be a dupe of #1251, where this issue is discussed at length. This is not something we are looking to add at this time, but may reconsider with #526.

@grochocki grochocki added duplicate Issue identified as a duplicate of another issue(s) Bug Issue is a bug and removed triage needed labels Jul 22, 2021
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pkar70 commented Jul 22, 2021

I think it is not dupe of #1251 - #1251 is about regional settings, and mine is about Unicode input instead of ASCII input.
And I can make PR, but I don't know where in code is e.g. clipboard paste handling, or keyboard handling.

Clipboard paste: as in normal texts (articles for publishing etc), one have to use "×" sign for multiplication, not "*". So, when I'm writing text, I have e.g. "has area 10×15 meters, i.e." - and I cannot copy/paste "10×15" to calculator to compute it.

By the way, "programmer calculator" can be switchable between programming languages, e.g. preferred by Microsoft (not so many years ago) Visual Basic, C, etc.; and when in VB mode, use VB syntax (operators from VB, as "", &H as hex prefix, etc.), and when in C mode, use C syntax (and 0x as hex prefix).

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