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Quod erat demonstrandum... Certe?
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On Feb 16, 2018, at 10:46 PM, Dexter N Muir < dexy@...> wrote: Micron. I presume that's the descriptive name for the Greek symbol like a 'u'? Well, not all the world has multi-language keyboards, and mine is 'standard' EN-US which doesn't play well outside plain ASCII. That's fine for the most part, but then I come across websites (like this forum) that use characters beyond ASCII's 7-bit range. All very descriptive and decorative, but? I'd like to be able to respond in kind and my customary text editor doesn't cut the mustard. So, just for the occasional web input, am I going to have to stoke up LibreOffice Writer, go through the menus/keystrokes to find the character, then copy and paste the result?
I have a simpler way,though it's a bit different in pronunciation. That 'micron' character's name is pronounced in most languages as "myoo" or "mew", (differentiating it from bovine "moo") and written "mu".
So, folks, I propose those of us wedded to our Text Editors start calling the 'ubitx' the "mubitx". After all, it's only one extra character ( and we already use 'ph', an aspirated 'p', to approximate the Greek 'phi' - and other such: NZ's Maori has 'wh', an aspirated 'w', a fatter-cheeked version of 'ph' and similarly definitely not a "f"...) - and pronunciation is only a brief initial 'hum' of "m"... Don't be surprised to find a 'mubitx' or two from time to time...
There was a young Curate of Kew
Kept a cat he found under a pew,
Tried to teach it to speak
alphabetical Greek,
But he never could get it past "mew".
73 all
Dex, ZL2DEX
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Just for the record, the greek letter mu is ALT-230 in the ascii
character set...however, most if not all html or text editors will
not accept it as printable. But Notepad++ does.
OK, Dex. Why not?
john
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Hello Dexter,
Friday, February 16, 2018, you wrote among many words:
DNM> There was a young Curate of Kew
DNM> Kept a cat he found under a pew,
DNM> Tried to teach it to speak
DNM> alphabetical Greek,
DNM> But he never could get it past "mew".
DNM> 73 all
DNM> Dex, ZL2DEX
So, folks, I propose start calling the 'ubitx' the 'mewbitx'. :)
73! George
VE7WQ
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I'll likely stick with uBitx, the less typing involved the better.
And no, I won't be editing all those uF's in my schematics to ?F's
Or mewF's.
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Must be time to get back to the soldering iron Lads!? Aloha, Steve WH6ST.....
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No sense of adventure or intellectual accuracy. Oh, accuracy comes from the same root as ακυμεν which means sharpness which we lose as we age. I am already there at age 73, but my doctor has assured me that this and similar intellectual pursuits fend p f2f Alzheimer's, etc.
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-------- Original message -------- From: "Jerry Gaffke via Groups.Io" <jgaffke@...> Date: 2/17/18 00:37 (GMT-05:00) Subject: Re: [BITX20] Micron? long, logical and hopefully both educational and amusing ...
I'll likely stick with uBitx, the less typing involved the better. And no, I won't be editing all those uF's in my schematics to ?F's Or mewF's.
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That's great!!
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On Feb 17, 2018 12:07 AM, VE7WQ <v@...> wrote:
Hello Dexter,
Friday, February 16, 2018, you wrote among many words:
DNM> There was a young Curate of Kew
DNM> Kept a cat he found under a pew,
DNM> Tried to teach it to speak
DNM> alphabetical Greek,
DNM> But he never could get it past "mew".
DNM> 73 all
DNM> Dex, ZL2DEX
So, folks, I propose start calling the 'ubitx' the 'mewbitx'. :)
73! George
VE7WQ
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Here's my 2?, but maybe I'm ? crazy, or even crazy?. ?Come se dice en Espa?ol?? ?Ay caramba! Are you paying in $, �, ?, or ??? Is that knob ?25.4mm?? All hail the ?B?!? Or its little brother the B40?!? Which is better, a 40% discount, or 40‰?? All this fussing is like a ? or worse, ?, in my heart.? Maybe it's the weather; we haven't seen 70°F for a while, three months ±a few days anyway.
Typed using the codes from ?which are of the form?ALT+0xxx.
But ohm and pi you gotta copy and paste.
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:49 am, Arvo KD9HLC wrote:
But ohm and pi you gotta copy and paste.
With OSX (and earlier MacOS's), not so much. ?Ω = opt-z, π = opt-p, ? = opt-m.
For lambda you have to use the keyboard viewer and hunt it down, or switch to a Greek keyboard or Greek font.
Cheers de W1BWA Bruce
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A Fawlty Towers Field Day?
ALL TE QSO's WUD B WTH ECH OHR.
That's a lot of QSL cards for SWL's. Hi.
john
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On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 07:49 am, Arvo KD9HLC wrote:
But ohm and pi you gotta copy and paste.
With OSX (and earlier MacOS's), not so much. ?Ω = opt-z, π = opt-p, ? = opt-m.
For lambda you have to use the keyboard viewer and hunt it down, or switch to a Greek keyboard or Greek font.
Cheers de W1BWA Bruce
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Now that you mention it - John Cleese is back with a new serial "Hold the sunset"
Promising first episode and will eagerly wait for next weeks!
Raj
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At 20/02/2018, you wrote: A Fawlty Towers Field Day?
ALL TE QSO's WUD B WTH ECH OHR.
That's a lot of QSL cards for SWL's. Hi.
john
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