Philippe Verdy <verdy_p at wanadoo dot fr> wrote: > If someone can find a legacy charset where such distinction existed, > or some justification why it was introduced in the first editions of > Unicode, I'd like to know (now it is clearly deprecated).
It is not deprecated. Users are *encouraged* to use the plain Latin letter K instead of U+212A, but please remember that "deprecated" has a specific meaning in Unicode which goes beyond, and does not apply to, U+212A. > Kelvins are most often written without the degree sign according to > SI conventions, even if sometimes incorrectly called "degree Kelvin" > and abbreviated as °K. Given that Kelvins are used mostly in > scientific areas, there's no reason to keep this informal notation, > when SI simply uses "K". Absolutely correct. There is no such thing as a "degree Kelvin," any more than there is a "degree meter" or "degree gram." "Kelvin" is the name of a unit. -Doug Ewell Fullerton, California http://users.adelphia.net/~dewell/
