Cases of signs? [RE: simple case mappings across UTF-8 length boundaries]

From: Kurosaka, Teruhiko (Teruhiko.Kurosaka@iona.com)
Date: Tue Jul 01 2003 - 17:19:21 EDT

  • Next message: Markus Scherer: "Re: Cases of signs? [RE: simple case mappings across UTF-8 length boundaries]"

    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:markus.scherer@jtcsv.com]
    > 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

    T. "Kuro" Kurosaka
    Internationalization Architect
    teruhiko.kurosaka@iona.com
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