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On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Herbert Graf wrote:

> On Tue, 2004-09-14 at 11:02, Falcon Wireless Tech Support - KF4HAZ
> wrote:
>> One easy trick is to use m for milli and =C2=B5 for micro,
>>  to type the mu "=C2=B5"- hold [ALT} and type 0181 on the numeric keypad=
=2E
>>
>> KF4HAZ - Lonnie
>
> Which is fine if the person reading your message is using the same font
> as you are, or using another font that happens to map 181 to the mu
> character. If you are using windows open up the character map and have a
> look and see how often this is the case... hint, it's not much.
>
> ASCII does NOT cover the mu character, therefore MANY fonts don't have
> it, or have it in a different spot. There is NO standard that is
> followed universally when it comes to this sort of thing.
>
> The wisest course of action IMHO is to use u, with a note following it's
> first usage (i.e. 300uF (micro-Farads)). TTYL

Fyi the original message showed a correct mu character on my X11 display,=
=20
but your quote of it changed it to a dichar: "A-circumflex" followed by=20
the "mu" character (this is what I see in the first paragraph quoted=20
above, between the quotes)

I aggree thta it's best to send only ascii characters. Special characters=
=20
can be represented in many ways, f.ex. using html &name; entities or=20
TeX-like "\mu \kappa \eta " etc. Sending non-human-readable codes is=20
probably a bad idea because they could be rendered differently or not at=20
all at the reciving end.

Peter
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