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by bajsejohannes 996 days ago
I just not sure why they put in the "Angstrom symbol" to begin with. If you do, then why isn't the "meter symbol" (m) also represented?

Fortunately, it seems like it's marked as deprecated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angstrom#Symbol

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> I just not sure why they put in the "Angstrom symbol" to begin with.

Frequently, the answer to this is "some obscure character set had this as a distinct symbol." In this case, blame the Japanese: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS_X_0208

Which is why there's an 'mm' and 'cm' and other random symbols: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+3300