On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Matthew Woehlke <mw_tr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > Vitali Lovich wrote: >> >> Additionally, you've got problems like mu for micro, which I'm not >> even sure can be represented in ASCII. > > I know I use "u" in this case. I'm not sure how wide-spread that is (or if > it's even not a personal quirk, though I want to say I've seen it > elsewhere). Of course, that's what I use as well when typing stuff out on the computer. However, there are ways to display it in Windows (ascii code 181 as well as various alt-codes & codepage numbers). I'm sure you can do so with Linux as well given it's all utf-8. The point is, do you accept both u & µ? Do you only accept µ? If you accept only u, then how do you deal with any µ's that come up (this is also impossible to determine without a priori knowledge about the input stream which cannot exist in sort)
Vitali
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