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Which is kind of weird, considering that the Ohm symbol is by definition the greek Omega - why did we use two separate unicode slots for them?
by dedward 16y ago
Which is kind of weird, considering that the Ohm symbol is by definition the greek Omega - why did we use two separate unicode slots for them?
- billswift 16y agoI suspect they incorporated two different pre-existing symbol sets - the Greek alphabet and a set of scientific symbols. Added - they did; here is an older version (3.0) of the standard online http://www.unicode.org/book/u2.html http://www.unicode.org/book/u2.html