enum Size { P, XS, S, M, L, XL, XXL }
enum Size { Petit, Extra_Small, Small, Medium, Large, Extra_Large, Extra_Extra_Large }
enum Size { 小小小, 小小, 小, 中, 大, 大大, 大大大 }
Which do you prefer: P, Petit, Petite, 小小小, 3小, XXS, 2XS?
English is chalk full of non-English words. And lots of symbols are useful. Sometimes it's worth it to learn the symbol. And often not much harder than learning the English abbreviation.
enum ⏻ { ⭘, ⏽, ⏾ }
Again, "typeable" is ambiguous but obviously an important consideration.
None of this is to argue against your point. Just musing.
You could write SSS, SS, LL and LLL in English too.
By the way, it's 'chock-full' not 'chalk-full'.
Are you distinguishing Chinese or Japanese on visual appearance? Or by some other method?
I think 小中大 have an advantage over SML because SML have no meaning by themselves. 小中大 have the exact meaning we need. Granted, 中 kinda ruins that argument. Size::中 is very clear, but perhaps not more so than Size::M.
I'm actually curious. Which do you like better in code? P, SSS, XXS, 小小小, 3S, 3小, whole words, something else?
The majority of people in the world can read and type 'S' easily, not so for '小'.
It seems you're basically arguing for pictograms. Like coding in Wingdings with a character map or something.
I would prefer to use a number scale, but if I had to choose from those options I would use whatever is most conventional in whatever area I'm in, which would probably be XXS.
The greek letter mu IS the micro sign, where do you think it comes from?
MICRO SIGN (U+00B5)[1] vs. GREEK SMALL LETTER MU (U+03BC)[2]
1: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/00b5/index.htm
2: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/03bc/index.htm
I’m not a font designer but I can imagine that the micro sign often appears around Latin letters whereas the Greek letter mu doesn’t, so that font designers might space them differently for that reason.
For fun I compared 10µm (upper; using the micro sign) with 10μm (lower; using the greek letter mu) in the comic sans font face. https://imgur.com/qwnnAqD
IIRC, to enable adoption. Many of the codepoints were adopted from other encoding systems, and it was often useful to support 2-way conversions without loss while Unicode was being adopted.
What's a "duplicate" is also sometimes in the eye of the beholder.