On Feb 17, 2006, at 4:00 AM, Gerhard Fiedler wrote:

> you want to be understood, you should use the proper units.

So you should NEVER use a micro prefix in electronic media unless
you're certain both your software and the audience's software can
properly represent and present a greek mu?   That doesn't mean using
a mu that some random software vendor stuck in a an unused slot of
a common font, either.  It's got to be something standardized.
(unicode is probably OK.  How widely implemented IS unicode?  I
thought it also go stuck behind the "it's so much easier to use
vendor-defined fonts" trap...)

> The one thing I wonder about this is why it's only in the US
> that this seems to be a problem.

Probably because the US was generating reams of printed schematics
back before whatever metrification we've done, with no mu's on our
typewriters, back when "m" was no more ambiguous than "u" is now...

BillW

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