Re: Ångstrøm symbol

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Sat Feb 15 2003 - 12:34:18 EST

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David Oftedal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> One of you mentioned that Unicode is reluctant to make symbols for
> things like TM, that are really only composed of other characters.
>
> Yet I read on someone's website that there's an Ångstrøm (Or Ångström,
> I Am Not A Swede) symbol that's exactly identical to the Scandinavian Å.
>
> (An Å is a European O that's there to compensate for the fact that our
> Scandinavian O sounds like an "Oo". Hey John Cowan, that should really
> go on your page.)
>
> What's the reason behind this? Is the Å just so cool and exotic that
> Unicode had to implement it twice?
>
> -Dave Oftedal

Some other character sets, e.g. JIS, don't make any difference between
the two "Å," so Unicode added an additional one for backwards compatibility.

Stefan

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