Hi James,

At 2025-08-03T20:15:42-0400, James Cloos wrote:
> IIRC, unicode and the wg behind 10646 both declare than ohm sign is for
> roundtrip compatibility only and that all new documents should use the
> helenic majuscule letter, including for abbreviating ohms.

Ah!  Can someone come up with a URL for this?  I want to add it into
code comments to keep groff developers on the path of virtue.  :)

> as such, i'd expect font support and things like document searching to
> support U+03A9 [Ω] better than U+2126 [Ω].

Okay.  In that case it sounds like I can throw away a handful of commits
in my working tree, and that the better fix is for the afmtodit program
to specially recognize these cases and not complain about them.

Thanks for shedding light on this!

Regards,
Branden

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