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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:23:45 +1100
Subject: Re: Time we switched to unicode?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:14 PM, Mark H Harris <harrismh777@gmail.com> w=
rote:
>>>>>> =CE=A0 =3D pi
>>
>> That's good! (Although typing =CE=A0 quicker than pi is majorly pushing =
it.
>
> It don't think that's good. The lower-case letter =CF=80 should be used. =
The
> upper-case letter is used for a product, although unicode dedicates a
> separate character for the purpose: =E2=88=8F.
>
> I often see Americans, especially, confuse upper and lower-case letters
> in symbols ("KM" for "km", "L" for "l" etc). However, we are dealing
> with case-sensitive programming languages, so our eyes should have been
> trained to address meaning to upper and lower case.

This has been pointed out multiple times, and I did notice it myself.
But it's not significant, and I was trying to avoid nit-picking. If
you can type a capital =E2=88=8F, you can type a lower-case =CF=80, unless =
there's
something very weird going on. So it still makes his point.

ChrisA