Re: Planck's constant U+210E

From: Asmus Freytag (asmusf@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Apr 20 2006 - 11:07:24 CST

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    On 4/20/2006 8:56 AM, Rick McGowan wrote:
    >> Why is there a special Unicode character U+210E for it?
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    > The short answer: because it was required many years ago for round-trip
    > mapping to another standard.
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    > Rick
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    And therefore precedes the complete coverage needed for MathML and other
    uses, which made attributing a specific name to the character a
    liability - but character names just don't change.

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