> Sure.  There are two ways to generate a mu character using "standard"
> Windows fonts:
>
> 1.  Switch to Symbol font, type "m".
> 2.  In your current font, hold down the ALT key while typing 0181 on
>     the numeric keypad.

There are actually a few more options, one of them being using the
US-International keyboard layout and pressing Right-Alt + m (which is
equivalent to your second option), and another one being opening the
character map, scrolling down to the Greek section, and selecting the
Unicode lower case mu -- which is defined as actually the Greek lower case
mu, whereas the 181 character is defined as the "micro" prefix.

This would indicate that any automatic conversion into ASCII should convert
the 181 character to "u" and the Unicode Greek character to "m". (Which of
course assumes that nobody used the Symbol font -- and that the converting
program knows what character set has been used :)

Maybe it's time for application developers to get an understanding of
Unicode, character sets and font standards and write their apps
accordingly...

Gerhard

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