Freddie Unpenstein writes: > Oh, if you write a bunch of OHM and OMEGA signs one after the > other, you can see a subtle differences the 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). 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 ISO units either, so there is no real reason to use a separate character for ohm in new applications. --tml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
