Ted Hopp ted at newslate dot com wrote:
Shouldn't a pint of beer be administratively fixed at 500 mL, just
as a fifth of liquor in America is now officially 750 mL? Seems
like a good task for an ISO working group.
Egads! THAT would be enough to drive a person to drink.
Thus promoting
For what it's worth, in America, you spell it meter; in England, you spell
it metre.
Jill
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From: Philippe Verdy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:52 AM
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SI units already have
All of this makes sense to me, apart from one or two tiny niggling points...
I confess, I hadn't read ch14.pdf, and I probably should have done. My
fault. But I still believe that there should be something in the
machine-readable code charts themselves that says, of the Roman numerals,
Don't use
On 17/08/2003 19:48, Doug Ewell wrote:
Michael Everson everson at evertype dot com wrote:
Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a
liter of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah,
that's just right. The Imperial pint is .57 liters, whereas the
Personally, I don't see why we have to sell beer (or anything else for that
matter) in integer multiples of any kind of units at all. Why can't we
just bring an arbitrarily sized, partially full, glass to the bar and say to
the guy at the bar: Could you fill it up to about HERE please?.
It's a
On 18/08/2003 04:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I don't see why we have to sell beer (or anything else for that
matter) in integer multiples of any kind of units at all. Why can't we
just bring an arbitrarily sized, partially full, glass to the bar and say to
the guy at the bar: Could
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit:
Don't use these characters - use the the normal Latin letters instead.
That's essentially the implication of being a compatibility character.
Secondly, I believe that the code charts SHOULD provide machine-readable
information about the hexadecimal values of the
Hi!
I am using Vi (version Vi IMproved 6.1) on Linux using UTF-8 (xterm
-u8). If a UTF-8 characters does, when misinterpreted as Latin-1,
contain a control character, that character is displayed as something
different. For example, the Swedish capital Ä is displayed as a
square box followed
Jill Ramonsky posted:
I would really like it if these, and
every single other character which is only there for reasons of round trip
compatibility with something else, were explicity marked in the
machine-readable charts with something meaning Don't introduce this
character, at all, ever. Don't
Try running vim in a UTF-8 locale.
$ LANG=en_US.UTF-8 vim
Also, see :help termencoding.
Noah
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 17:50:42 +0200, Stefan Persson wrote:
Hi!
I am using Vi (version Vi IMproved 6.1) on Linux using UTF-8 (xterm
-u8). If a UTF-8 characters does, when misinterpreted as
On 18/08/2003 09:06, Jim Allan wrote:
Jill Ramonsky posted:
I would really like it if these, and
every single other character which is only there for reasons of
round trip
compatibility with something else, were explicity marked in the
machine-readable charts with something meaning Don't
From: Ted Hopp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sunday, August 17, 2003 10:48 PM, Doug Ewell wrote:
Shouldn't a pint of beer be administratively fixed at
500 mL,
500 ml (lowercase for the official liter symbol)
just as a fifth of liquor in America is now officially
750 mL?
750
Thought you folks might be interested in this recent posting from another list.
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Subject: [I18NdotNET] Breaking free from UNICODE
Hi guys
I am Working on a
John Cowan replied:
Rick McGowan scripsit:
Which explains to me why a pint of bitter in England seems quite so
enormous... well for a small Yank... ;-)
Yup. Hence also the Brit's complaint about the metric system: a liter
of beer is too much, half a liter isn't enough, but a pint, ah, that's
Three points:
(1) If you don't want to change the LANG setting, just
setting LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 should be sufficient.
(2) It also will likely be the case that the terminal under
which you are running VIM also needs to have been
started in a UTF-8 locale. Make sure that the
Peter Kirk posted:
It would be much simpler if each such character were clearly labelled in
the code charts etc. DO NOT USE!, and with its glyph presented on a grey
background or in some other way to indicate its special status.
I don't think people should be told so directly to NOT use an
On 18/08/2003 11:32, Jim Allan wrote:
Peter Kirk posted:
It would be much simpler if each such character were clearly labelled in
the code charts etc. DO NOT USE!, and with its glyph presented on a grey
background or in some other way to indicate its special status.
I don't think people
Someone suggested...
It would be much simpler if each such character were clearly labelled in
the code charts etc. DO NOT USE!, and with its glyph presented on a grey
background or in some other way to indicate its special status.
Well, sure, I agree that it might be nice to somewhere
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Philippe Verdy scripsit:
Egads! THAT would be enough to drive a person to
drink.
Do you mean drunk here? At least that person should not be
authorized to drive after 66 cl (or two 33cl bottles),
Drive [someone] to drink means frustrate or annoy [someone]
sufficiently that he
I'm sorry that you haven't gotten responses before. I have searched through my
email archive, and can't find anything like the message, and I don't think it
was brought up to the UTC formally.
The first one seems odd, and as you say, it would seem to only affect a
vanishingly small number of
On 18/08/2003 13:36, Mark Davis wrote:
I'm sorry that you haven't gotten responses before. I have searched through my
email archive, and can't find anything like the message, and I don't think it
was brought up to the UTC formally.
The first one seems odd, and as you say, it would seem to only
Peter Kirk posted:
Well, that's what was puzzling me about the recommendations not to use
these characters. In my opinion, there needs to be a clear statement
with each character definition (not somewhere in the text not linked to
it) of its status in such respects. Is it for compatibility use
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