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



"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote about '㏄', '㎍', and similar ilk:

> IIRC they're classed as compatibility characters.

Of course you recall correctly: 

   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/cjk_compatibility/index.htm
   http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/cjk_compatibility/utf8test.htm

Notice how Stephen underscores his point by chopping up his post 
into three parts with different charsets:

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=big5

>  > > How common is the use of the single character '=A2W'=20
>  > > instead of two 'c' characters for cubic centimeters,=20

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=euc-kr

>  > > and how common is the use of the single character '=A7=B6'=20

> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

>  > > instead of two characters, the '=B5' and the 'g' for=20
>  > > micrograms=20

Stephen, I think you missed a Japanese charset. :-)



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