\N{Greek Capital Letter Omega} -- of course you have to look up that name,
too.

On Sun, Jun 30, 2024, 13:07 Tiago Freire via SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
wrote:

> I would avoid characters that look like other things (′) those would
> definitely be a pain, also ℃ and °C will confuse somebody.
>
> Otherwise, I wouldn’t prevent someone from using it if they wish to use
> it, but then again, I don’t have a Ω on my keyboard.
>
> Yes, you can use a macro to type arbitrary Unicode characters on your
> keyboard, but truth be told I won’t be able to remember those, it ain’t
> happening.
>
> In practice if I wanted to type those, I would have to look up the
> character and copy paste it, which is just too much work and would just
> stick up to ascii.
>
>
>
> Just my 2¢
>
>
>
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>
> *From:* SG16 <sg16-bounces_at_[hidden]> *On Behalf Of *Mateusz Pusz
> via SG16
> *Sent:* Sunday, June 30, 2024 16:56
> *To:* SG16 <sg16_at_[hidden]>
> *Cc:* Mateusz Pusz <mateusz.pusz_at_[hidden]>
> *Subject:* [isocpp-sg16] Unicode identifiers in the source code
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> During the recent LEWGI discussion on the units library, people in the
> room suggested that in addition to the regular "ASCII" version, we should
> also provide Unicode symbols for unit identifiers. It seems that with
> P1949R7, this could be possible.
>
>
>
> However, when I tried this in the code, I was able to make the following
> work:
>
>
>
> inline constexpr auto µΩ = micro<si::ohm>;
>
>
>
> but not:
>
>
>
> inline constexpr auto ℃ = degree_Celsius;
>
> inline constexpr auto ° = degree;
>
> inline constexpr auto ′ = arcminute;
> inline constexpr auto ″ = arcsecond;
>
>
>
> Are those outside of the supported range and should not be supported, or
> is it just the lack of proper support in the compilers I use (gcc-14 and
> clang-18)?
>
>
>
> Even if this can work, is it a good idea?
>
>
>
> Best
>
>
>
> Mat
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