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.

@foone (micro)

@barometz whoops. thanks

@foone

That unicode page contains a lot of history about international trade...

@foone the committee would really rather you not use that codepoint tho

BRB changing my name to ㎂lice ㎂verlong

@foone omg yes. The fact that there’s “micro” and “Greek letter mu” and they’re separate but the same is 🙃

@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

@someonetellmetosleep @shieldsy05 @foone the Unicode consortium never removes characters

@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.

@foone @TomF uop$ isn’t close enough?

@turtwig @TomF uop$ is what I say when I mess up at programming

@foone I keep forgetting that the A doesn't mean Å

@mvilain yeah I did a bunch of unicode *lice *verlongs on tumblr last night, but I skipped Ålice Åverlong, to avoid the accusations of Stargating

@endrift @someonetellmetosleep @shieldsy05 @foone at least not since unicode 1.1

@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 :)