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>Those two symbols both long predate unicode (as you'd expect given the nature of unicode). Yes, but notably they are not included in Unicode for compatibility
by EE84M3i 6y ago
>Those two symbols both long predate unicode (as you'd expect given the nature of unicode).
Yes, but notably they are not included in Unicode for compatibility with legacy character sets.
- thaumasiotes 6y agoAre they included in Unicode for any reason? They're not textual and don't make any sense (they are actually ill-formed[1]) as independent glyphs. [1] OK, they're not ill-formed if you really want to insert a miniature icon of a free benzene molecule into running text, but in chemistry you're mostly talking about benzene rings as a structural element in larger molecules, not molecular benzene.