They are the same characters in practice (except for 1:1 codepage mappings) and need to be treated the same.
From UnicodeData.txt: 2126;OHM SIGN;Lu;0;L;03A9;;;;N;OHM;;;03C9; 212A;KELVIN SIGN;Lu;0;L;004B;;;;N;DEGREES KELVIN;;;006B; 212B;ANGSTROM SIGN;Lu;0;L;00C5;;;;N;ANGSTROM UNIT;;;00E5;
markus
Kurosaka, Teruhiko wrote:
Markus, This is interesting. Do you know why Unicode decided that these signs should have case-ness (?)? The lower case of the Ohm sign does not make sense to me. What could that mean?
From: Markus Scherer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 1:30 PM To: unicode Subject: simple case mappings across UTF-8 length boundaries
U+2126 simple-lowercases to U+03c9 U+2126 is OHM SIGN
U+212a simple-lowercases to U+006b U+212a is KELVIN SIGN
U+212b simple-lowercases to U+00e5 U+212b is ANGSTROM SIGN
