On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 09:29:46 +0300
Tor Lillqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Unicode standard says that the preferred representation *is* the
> Greek capital omega
I tried to code it as the special Ohms, and had difficulties in finding a
font that defined it. So I left it at Omega. I don't want
Freddie Unpenstein writes:
> (BTW, is klingon listed in the Unicode standard?!?)
No, it has been (repeatedly, I think) rejected.
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> > bunch of OHM and OMEGA signs, subtle differences in 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 exist
Tor Lillqvist writes:
> ... for ISO units either
Err, I meant *SI* units, of course.
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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
render
> You can always write UTF-8 characters expanded with escapes
> "\xe2\x84\xa6" (this is Ohm sign which is different from capital
> Omega "\xce\xa9", BTW) if you don't want to use UTF-8 directly,
> which is no problem nowadays.
One trick I use to avoid ending up with a long illegible string of ugl
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 18:20:40 +0200
"David Necas (Yeti)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:34:56PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> >
> > Thanks for the reply, I've never really thought much about about the
> > consequences of using the locale to generate programs (in my
> > defe
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 12:34:56PM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
>
> Thanks for the reply, I've never really thought much about about the
> consequences of using the locale to generate programs (in my
> defense:the locale is 'C' which should be available everywhere).
C locale does not define charact
On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 09:04:03 +0200
"David Necas (Yeti)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:40:38AM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> > Of all things, I didn't think this would be so difficult. I want to
> > put a string on the screen with e
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 02:40:38AM -0300, John Coppens wrote:
> Of all things, I didn't think this would be so difficult. I want to
> put a string on the screen with electrical units, and the Ohms-(Omega)
> character. I normally write characters in the locale set and then call
>
Hello people.
Of all things, I didn't think this would be so difficult. I want to
put a string on the screen with electrical units, and the Ohms-(Omega)
character. I normally write characters in the locale set and then call
g_locale_to_utf8, but I can't find the character Omega in the
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