Dear Bruce and All,
The superscripts on p and A did not happen - I got " and " in both their
opening quote and closing quote forms. The letter 'mu', however was fine.
--
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
CAMS - Certified Advanced Metrication Specialist
- United States Metric Association
ASM - Accredited Speaking Member
- National Speakers Association of Australia
Member, International Federation for Professional Speakers
on 2001/05/31 00.53, Bruce Raup at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
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>
