Comment by zygentoma
2 days ago
Maybe not for text to be read again, but might be sensible e.g. for slug or file name generation and the like...
2 days ago
Maybe not for text to be read again, but might be sensible e.g. for slug or file name generation and the like...
That’s an interesting thought.
IMO this is somewhere where if we were really doing something, we might as well go all the way and double check the relevant standards, right? The filesystem should accept some character set for use as names, and if we’re generating a name inside our program we should definitely find a character set that fits inside what the filesystem expects and that captures what we want to express… my gut says upper case Latin K would be the best pick if we needed to most portably represent Kelvin in a filename on a reasonably modern, consumer filesystem.