On 2001-05-30 18:00 +1000, Pat Naughtin wrote in USMA:13148: > Dear Bill and All, > > Re: [USMA:13084] > > I try, as far as possible to use the alternate form of m3 for cubic metre in > email posting but I feel guilty about it because this is the act of a wimp. > > Where do we find out who is responsible for the software that changes > > m (with a superscript 3) > > to > > m" > > rather than to > > m3 > > and how do we get them to rewrite the software so that it begins to use ISO > standards. > > Is it someone at Microsoft? And if so who? I think the culprit is Microsoft. Their "embrace and extend" approach to standards is frequently an "embrace and extinguish" tactic, and I think that's what is happening here. They have defined their own character sets, and they work fine as long as they don't leave the realm of Windows. But of course, on the Internet, they do leave that realm. Can you set your character set to ISO-8859-1? I believe the following test contains characters from that set: p� = k A� 1000 nm = 1 �m Could everyone read those fine? (Should say, "p squared = k A cubed" and "1000 nm = 1 micrometer" (with micrometer symbolic).) Bruce -- Bruce Raup National Snow and Ice Data Center Phone: 303-492-8814 University of Colorado, 449 UCB Fax: 303-492-2468 Boulder, CO 80309-0449 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
