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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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