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Unicode support for astropy units

See original GitHub issue

Dealing with unit strings received from somewhere, it would be nice if astropy supported common unicode symbols.

E.g.

import astropy.units as u

u.Unit('µg')  # MICRO SIGN (U+00B5)
u.Unit('μm') # GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (U+03BC)
u.Unit('m²')  # SUPERSCRIPT TWO (U+00B2)
u.Unit('m³') # SUPERSCRIPT THREE (U+00B3)
u.Unit('s⁻¹') # SUPERSCRIPT MINUS  (U+207B) + SUPERSCRIPT 1 (U+00B9)

Probably there is more…

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:16 (16 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

maxnoecommented, Oct 9, 2019

Ok, the micro part was quite easy, see https://github.com/astropy/astropy/pull/9348

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bsipoczcommented, Oct 29, 2019

#9348 has implemented this

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