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> I can imagine that those who can read the characters might prefer > the netname “高圧” to “HV” or “HighVoltage”. When you’re trying to > pack information into small spaces, Roman letters sometimes seem > clumsy. And a real Ω on resistance values... more likely we'll get some random joke emoji (like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ for example) as a refdes just because the engineer could[*] :-P or some weird glyph way up in the undefined space that only one font on the planet has... [*] "well, I didn't know what to call it, so that seemed appropriate."
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