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TIL that the SI units all have Unicode symbols. http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/categories/So/Other_Symbol http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/cate

TIL that the SI units all have Unicode symbols. http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/categories/So/Other_Symbol http://www.marathon-studios.com/unicode/categories/So/Other_... If people actually used these, it would make searching text for formulae much easier. Wikipedia editors and academic publishers, please note. Also, there's no Unicode for screwdriver. Perhaps iFixit would like to campaign for that? Congratulations on getting the power symbols in! When @edent writes "Will update ... when I stop dancing", was it "I got the power"?

legulere 10y ago
The SI ones are for use together with Chinese/Japanese/Korean to fit together with their square characters. I don't see how using them for anything else would have any use. I never searched for units when searching for formulas
dalke 10y ago
I didn't see special Unicode symbols for the SI units in the link you gave or in a more general search. I found no match for "ampere" which is the SI base unit for electric current, or for "candela", used for luminous intensity. BTW, just because a character exist doesn't mean it's the best choice for ordinary use. As https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#Symbol_for_.C3.A5ngstr.C3.B6m https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%85#Symbol_for_.C3.A5ngstr.... points out: > Unicode also has encoded U+212B Å ANGSTROM SIGN. However, that is canonically equivalent to the ordinary letter Å. The duplicate encoding at U+212B is due to round-trip mapping compatibility with an East-Asian character encoding, but is otherwise not to be used.