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[David Oftedal]

Hi,

One of you mentioned that Unicode is reluctant to make symbols for things like TM, that are really only composed of other characters.

Yet I read on someone's website that there's an Ångstrøm (Or Ångström, I Am Not A Swede) symbol that's exactly identical to the Scandinavian Å.

(An Å is a European O that's there to compensate for the fact that our Scandinavian O sounds like an "Oo". Hey John Cowan, that should really go on your page.)

What's the reason behind this? Is the Å just so cool and exotic that Unicode had to implement it twice?

-Dave Oftedal

--
New Norwegian (Nynorsk) is essentially the speech of Norwegian peasants
as mutilated by a schoolteacher with a poor understanding of Icelandic.
--Halldór Laxness, via B. Philip Jonsson

Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are actually the same language. It's just
that the Norwegians can't spell it, and the Danes can't pronounce it.
--Chlewey