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Omega (US: / oʊ ˈ m eɪ ɡ ə,-ˈ m ɛ ɡ ə,-ˈ m iː ɡ ə /, UK: / ˈ oʊ m ɪ ɡ ə /; [1] uppercase Ω, lowercase ω; Ancient Greek ὦ, later ὦ μέγα, Modern Greek ωμέγα) is the twenty-fourth and last letter in the Greek alphabet.
The following is a Unicode collation algorithm list of Greek characters and those Greek-derived characters that are sorted alongside them. [2] [3] [4]Most of the characters of the blocks listed above are included, except for the Ancient Greek Numbers, Ancient Symbols and Ancient Greek Musical Notation.
The next characters in the Cyrillic block, range U+0460–U+0489, are historical letters, some of which are still used for Church Slavonic. The characters in the range U+048A–U+04FF and the complete Cyrillic Supplement block (U+0500–U+052F) are additional letters for various languages that are written with Cyrillic script .
The KCharSelect character mapping tool shown displaying a subset of the Unicode Mathematical Operators The Unicode logo. Unicode input is method to add a specific Unicode character to a computer file; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard.
the symbol ϖ, a graphic variant of π, is sometimes construed as omega with a bar over it; see π the unsaturated fats nomenclature in biochemistry (e.g. ω−3 fatty acids ) the first uncountable ordinal ω 1 {\displaystyle \omega _{1}} (also written as Ω)
A numeric character reference uses the format &#nnnn; or &#xhhhh; where nnnn is the code point in decimal form, and hhhh is the code point in hexadecimal form. The x must be lowercase in XML documents. The nnnn or hhhh may be any number of digits and may include leading zeros. The hhhh may mix uppercase and lowercase, though uppercase is the ...
Latin omega, or simply omega, is an additional letter of the Latin alphabet, based on the lowercase shape of the Greek letter omega ω . It was included as a Latin letter in the Mann and Dalby 1982 revision of the African reference alphabet and has been used as such in some publications in the Kulango languages in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s.
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). [2] It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, [3] PC-8, [4] or DOS Latin US. [5] The set includes all printable ASCII characters as well as some accented letters (), Greek letters, icons, and line-drawing symbols.