Re: Ångstrøm symbol

From: Stefan Persson (alsjebegrijptwatikbedoel@yahoo.se)
Date: Wed Feb 19 2003 - 10:15:20 EST

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Doug Ewell wrote:

>As Stefan Persson already observed, U+212B ANGSTROM SIGN (Å) exists in
>Unicode alongside U+00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE (Å) only
>because both characters were present in some legacy character set with
>which Unicode had to maintain round-trip compatibility.
>
>
Does anyone know which legacy character set we're talking about? I can
only think of character sets including one of them.

Stefan

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