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Re: '㏄' versus 'cc' and '㎍' versus 'µg' usage [tlug]



jep200404 wrote:
I don't think I was clear enough, so I'm rephrasing the question.

How common is the use of the single character '㏄' instead of two 'c' characters for cubic centimeters, and how common is the use of the single character '㎍' instead of two characters, the 'µ' and the 'g' for micrograms

1. in Japan?

Common, I would have thought - if you look at traditional Japanese printing, you'll see all sorts of "characters" made from strings of roman letters, or tiny kana. But this is all because of fitting a spaghetti language into a tofu printing system.



2. in Europe?

Unknown, assuming you mean "in European languages", none of which is Japanese (or Chinese, or any other tofu printing system).


(Partly genuine question...) How about degreesC? In Japanese this is a single character (therefore it appears in Unicode), but surely in any European language (including English) this is simply a degrees sign followed by a capital C. I guess there might be fonts which have it as a ligature, as in 'fi' 'ff' 'ffi', but there is surely no _character_ 'ffi'.

Brian Chandler
http://imaginatorium.org





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