Revision as of 14:27, 24 May 2024 edit Kvng (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users, New page reviewers 116,036 edits add page number ← Previous edit		Revision as of 13:21, 14 June 2024 edit undo Warudo (talk \| contribs) Extended confirmed users 9,369 edits →Semantically distinct characters: Used Template:Unichar for angstrom, ohm and kelvin to bypass normalization. Previously, these were the regular unicode characters instead of the symbols. Attempting to change them by hand resulted in a null edit Next edit →
Line 65: Though not the intention of Unicode to encode such measuring units the repertoire includes six (6) such symbols that should not be used by authors: the characters' decompositions should be used instead.<ref>Omega, mu, Angstrom, Kelvin: {{cite web \|url=http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/ \|title=Unicode Technical Report #25 / Unicode Support for Mathematics \|date=2017-05-30 \|page=11 \|author=Unicode Consortium}}</ref><ref name="decomp" /> * Unit symbols (6): [[Angstrom]] ~~(Å U+~~{{unichar\|212B\|name=none}}: use U+00C5 instead), [[Ohm]] (~~Ω, U+~~{{unichar\|2126\|name=none}}: use U+03A9 instead), [[Kelvin]] (~~K U+~~{{unichar\|212A\|name=none}}: use U+004B instead), [[Fahrenheit]] (℉ U+2109 ℉: use [[°\|U+00B0]] and U+0046 instead), [[Celsius]] (℃ U+2103 ℃: use U+00B0 and U+0043 instead), [[micro-\|Micro]] Sign (µ U+00B5 µ: use U+03BC instead) Unicode also designates 22 other letter-like symbols as compatibility characters.<ref name="decomp">≈ designates compatibility decomposition according to https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/ch24.pdf and is shown in code charts at https://www.unicode.org/charts/nameslist/n_2100.html</ref>

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