Units for Character spacing

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It's been nearly 6 years since this question was asked. Why does XD still not natively support unit conversion? (similar to how it's done in Webflow)

Here is the mlliems to point conversion

https://codepen.io/tdubal3/pen/XWaYroe

Would like to add my voice and say this should probably be fixed. Software is designed for developing websites & apps, but all the metrics need to be converted manually? Doesn't make sense

Here, I made a converter just to make my life simpler.
You can use it to convert letter spacing from XD to CSS(px) and vice versa.
You can find it here: https://codepen.io/raunaqpatel/full/bGpwBvo

If you want the formula, its: 

lineSpaceinCSS = (lineSpaceinXD * fontSizeinXD)/ 1000;

You might be able to use this CSS formula to workout the corresponding CSS-to-AdobeXDLetterSpacing equivilant (See below).

letter-spacing: calc(-1em * 0.001 * <XDCharacterSpacing>);

For example, lets say you have Character Spacing set to "-70", then you'll use ...

letter-spacing: calc(-1rem * 0.001 * 70);

For example, lets say you have Character Spacing set to "120", then you'll use ...

letter-spacing: calc(1rem * 0.001 * 120);

I didn't know that I needed a calculator to use this programm...If adobe wants to make a better user experience for their users please change this to pixels, no one understands this system! For type / font systems styleguides this is a horrible user experience! Lately they just released "marketing features" for new users, instead of focusing in the users that use this professionaly...

Hi Elaine,
Sorry but this is not solved.
This is the first time I heard about "mili-ems".

I just realized now that I was sending numbers like "-0.84px" to my devs team, thru the XD share link, which completly looks like a random number, and they even tend to not use it!.

On the shared file we have px/pt/dp option. It's more than obvious that we need the same units (+ mili-ems if you guys need it) on the application.

Thank you. This is a huge issue IMO

This is really stupid...

If I want to use 1.5px as character spacing, for 1.5px at default 14px, it translates to:

1.5px = 0.10714285714285714em

so I have to multiply by 1000 which is :

107.1428571429

....

REALLY? I have to do all this just for my character spacing in px?