Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️if ever you don't feel cool enough when you properly unicodify an electrical unit like microamps as µA instead of uA, remember that you can also do ㎂ for even FANCIER unicode.
BRB changing my name to ㎂lice ㎂verlong
mmu_man
valerie 2: desperate struggle@foone Alice Averlong rated at 10,000 millialice hours (mAh) of power
Mx. Eddie R@foone
How many ㎂lice per cursed keyboard?
How many ㎂lice per cursed keyboard?
Michael Vilain@foone I keep forgetting that the A doesn't mean Å
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Arthur Bárbaro@foone I was about to ask if I should read it as Malice or as Ualice (like Wario), then I noticed that pff, silly me, it's obviously meant to be read as Microampǽrlice Microampǽrverlong.
Євген@foone Good luck getting baristas to spell or pronounce that. Unless they are the sub population who are over educated.
@efhastings eh, I've had three (main) names in my life, and baristas have never had any success with any of them, so I'm not bothered :)
dominic
RevK 
Poul-Henning KampThat unicode page contains a lot of history about international trade...
Ray McCarthy@foone
Or if you use Linux or similar you can add lower & upper case Greek to .Xcompose in home.
Then Compose g m gives μ
g l gives λ
G P gives Π
G O gives Ω
etc.
I have CapsLock as the Compose key.
I also added prime and double prime for feet/minutes inches/seconds: ′ and ″
Both typewriter ' " and regular quotes ‘ “ are wrong.
@raymaccarthy on Windows you can install WinCompose and get the same!
@barometz
I did dual boot from 1998 to 2016 and in Jan 2017 erased Windows 7 from my daily laptop.
I also used the MS Unix for Window thing from 1998 that predated the Linux one and had a 3rd party X-windows server on NT 4.0.
I did dual boot from 1998 to 2016 and in Jan 2017 erased Windows 7 from my daily laptop.
I also used the MS Unix for Window thing from 1998 that predated the Linux one and had a 3rd party X-windows server on NT 4.0.
@foone I still can do uA anywhere, old and new applications, edit in any text editor that uses plain old ASCII set, even e-mail it in the 7-bit internet. It's ugly, but it's perfectly understood by my correspondents.
Then I can write a pretty printable manual, and in that case I'll resort to the correct greek letter, exactly as I do in my handwritten notes - yes, there's still people doing hand witten formulas.
Then I can write a pretty printable manual, and in that case I'll resort to the correct greek letter, exactly as I do in my handwritten notes - yes, there's still people doing hand witten formulas.
Sander@Klassika @foone What I find rather curious is that they created a symbol for a subunit, where there's no evidence for a strict need, like a complex kerning. Moreover, changing the unity prefix involves the unit itself, like if going to "mA" or "nA" is a change in the whole, while it's just scaling - which happens quite often, for us working with electrical units, during calculation.
Did they code also μT, μV, μF? Again, they're used, but I don't see any strict need, beside T kerning.
Did they code also μT, μV, μF? Again, they're used, but I don't see any strict need, beside T kerning.
@Klassika @foone I find quite horrible seeing "mcg" for micro gram, but now that you tell me it has sense, given doctors calligraphy...
In old electronics you could find "mmF" as milli-milli-Farad, instead of micro.
Oneof the funniest, that I've seen in use through the 70s and 80s is "kpF" as kilo-pico-Farad, instead of nF, for nano-Farad. Maybe has it's root in the pF subunit, quite widespread. Anyways, one of the most horrible down and up scaling.
David@foone omg yes. The fact that there’s “micro” and “Greek letter mu” and they’re separate but the same is 🙃
Bee (a dork)@shieldsy05 @foone I was convinced for years that the micro sign was officially deprecated/intended for lossless character set conversions only, but it turns out it's not and I just made that deprecation up entirely. apparently the Unicode Consortium thinks it's perfectly cromulent to have both
endrift 🏳️⚧️@endrift @shieldsy05 @foone I didn't say anything about removal. there are Unicode characters that are explicitly for compatibility only and should not be used in normal, Unicode-originating, text, and I thought that the micro sign was one of them
Charlotte 
/Cinny 
✧✦Catherine✦✧@foone the committee would really rather you not use that codepoint tho
Tom Forsyth@foone In CPU design we have "uarch" and "ucode" because we like to annoy people. We also of course have I$, D$, L2$ etc. I don't think anyone's ever put the two abominations to make u$ though. Something for the TODO list.
Turtwig