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Comment by gerikson

10 months ago

Lowercasing the symbols for Ohm, Kelvin or Ångström makes no sense.

For the Greek alphabet cases, isn't there canonical forms for this kind of stuff?

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Am4TIfIsER0ppos  10 months ago

Are those first two something other than Greek Omega and ascii K?

  • gerikson  10 months ago

    Yes, the Ohm, Kelvin and Ångström have their codepoints in Unicode.

    • Am4TIfIsER0ppos  10 months ago

      fuck I hate unicode they are not different symbols

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