Re: Omega character

["Freddie Unpenstein" <fredderic excite com>]

> > bunch of OHM and OMEGA signs, subtle differences in characters.

> Of course, the reason why they have different code points is not
> that they might look different (this is just a coincidence, caused
> by Pango rendering them from different typefaces). The reason the
> separate ohm sign exists is presumably a roundtrip compatibility
> requirement (i.e. there is some older character encoding that has
> it).

I figured the difference in look was just the selection of font...  But I also figured that since there WAS 
an Ohm character, it would probably be best to use it, particularly since I'm guessing it's packed in along 
with a number of other mathematically minded symbols?  So if you're going to be using a few of them, at least 
you know there's the best chance that they'll suit each other...


> In fact, the Unicode standard says that the preferred
> representation *is* the Greek capital omega. There aren't different
> Unicode character for the Latin letters used for SI units either,
> so there is no real reason to use a separate character for ohm in
> new applications.

Someone should write a bunch of headers packed with #define's to go along with the various sections of the 
Unicode standard...

#include "unicode/siunits.h"
#include "unicode/klingon.h"    // ;)

(BTW, is klingon listed in the Unicode standard?!?)


Fredderic

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