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I just not sure why they put in the "Angstrom symbol" to begin with. If you do, then why isn't the "meter symbol" (m) also represented? Fortunately, it seems l

I just not sure why they put in the "Angstrom symbol" to begin with. If you do, then why isn't the "meter symbol" (m) also represented? Fortunately, it seems like it's marked as deprecated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom#Symbol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom#Symbol

jcranmer 3y ago
> I just not sure why they put in the "Angstrom symbol" to begin with. Frequently, the answer to this is "some obscure character set had this as a distinct symbol." In this case, blame the Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208 Which is why there's an 'mm' and 'cm' and other random symbols: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+3300 https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+3300