Dave McGuire wrote:
On 1/8/22 6:05 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote:
The big issues come when line wrapping splits the units from their quantities.? I can't stand that.
(The non-breaking space U+00A0 was invented for avoiding such line breaks.
As with ? and ¦¸, that is easier to type on some platforms than on others.
Unfortunately, my mail composer doesn¡¯t seem to like it at all.)
? Well, I'm an ASCII man here.? Just like leaded solder, I figure I can stay in that world until I'm dead.
????????? -Dave
I like the attitude :-) .? After all, we adapted pretty fast to early personal electronic communications' limits on technical issues under all-caps platforms.? What does the string "100 MFD" or "100 UF" mean?? And regarding solder: I don't like unleaded solder. However, I would like to have the experience of silver-soldering: some instruments from the mid-20th century look just darn beautiful with silver solder.
In non-english conversations, waters are even more troubled. Language-regulating institutions do exist, and some of them insist on using local language translations for the names of standard units in the SI system, in clear violation? of SI rules.? I quarrel all time? about this with my colleagues in Colombia.
carlos.
