ENH: Support μs Greek small letter mu

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Feature Type

• Adding new functionality to pandas

• Changing existing functionality in pandas

• Removing existing functionality in pandas

Problem Description

Microseconds may be abbreviated as μs, using the 0x3bc Greek small letter mu, instead of the 0xb5 Latin Extended micro sign. Examples:

• The International System of Units (SI) brochure
• NFKC normalized Python code and domain names
• Section 2.5 Duplicated Characters of Unicode Technical Report 25
• The microfarads abbreviation in Pandas tests

Feature Description

Timedelta('1 μs')

Alternative Solutions

Unit conversion could be delegated to an external package like pint:

In [34]: from pint import UnitRegistry
In [35]: ur = UnitRegistry()
In [36]: ur('1us') == ur('1\u00b5s') == ur('1\u03bcs')
Out[36]: True

Additional Context

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