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Comment by gerikson

8 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  8 months ago

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

  • gerikson  8 months ago

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

    • Am4TIfIsER0ppos  8 months ago

      fuck I hate unicode they are not different symbols

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