| > The Greek characters are A-Omega and alpha-omega, plus 6 or seven
| > variant characters that tend to get used in Math.
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| Why bother with variants? Anyone who uses, say, printed and script
| pi (rho, phi, beta, theta, kappa, epsilon, whatever) in the same text
| deserves the confusion that will inevitably result, whether the
| variants are available to him or not.
Different symbols are conventionally used in different fields.
Unicode is descriptive, not prescriptive.
| Also, final sigma is never used in math. Nor are digamma, koppa,
| sampi, &c, unless you're preparing mathematical texts that use
| ancient Greek numeration.
The digamma function (represented by a lower-case digamma) is a
standard function---see, e g, Jeffries and Jeffries, Methods of
Mathematical Physics, Cambridge University Press. They also define the
trigamma function, written as digamma primed.
So that rather throws your other "nevers" into doubt, doesn't it?
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