Re: Omega character

["David Necas (Yeti)" <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:40:38AM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> Of all things, I didn't think this would be so difficult. I want to
> put a string on the screen with electrical units, and the Ohms-(Omega)
> character. I normally write characters in the locale set and then call
> g_locale_to_utf8, but I can't find the character Omega in the local set
> (0xBD is occupied with the 1/2 symbol).

If I understand correctly, you write strings in your
compile-time locale charset and then convert these
strings from run-time locale charset to UTF-8 with
g_locale_to_utf8().

This is borken (beside inefficient), as these two locales
can easily differ.  Don't do that (and if you do that, be
prepared people from non-Western countries will hate you).

You can always write UTF-8 characters expanded with escapes
"\xe2\x84\xa6" (this is Ohm sign which is different from
capital Omega "\xce\xa9", BTW) if you don't want to use
UTF-8 directly, which is no problem nowadays.

Yeti


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