MAC minus key doesn't work for scientific notation

Issue #1109 new
Rohan Chimalapati created an issue

Version: 0.12
OS: MAC

I'm not sure if this applies to anything other than macs, since I've only just discovered that macs even have this issue.

The hyphen key that macs use is actually not a true minus symbol but counts as a separate symbol entirely. It seems that most apps have accounted for the different symbol somehow since I've never had an issue with this, but when typing 1.234e-9 on speedcrunch(mac) it doesn't recognize it as 1.234*10^-9 but as (1.234*e) - 9 where e is recognized as the variable. Whereas if I copy-paste a true minus symbol from the internet or try on a windows system, it works totally fine.

I'm guessing this is because mac's hyphen causes -12 to be read as subtract 12 instead of negative 12 so the scientific notation functionality doesn’t see it as a signed integer.

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