If you look up “ISO 8859-1” on the internet you will come across reams of
explanations. In a nutshell 192 printable characters are available without
going into Unicode. The US keyboard gives direct access to 96 of them. The UK
keyboard gives direct access to 97 (the £ symbol is used in the
The missing symbol is omega (symbol for ohms) – I’ll try printing it – Ω. It
came out OK on my screen. If you want to know more, read up about UNICODE.
(It is too big a subject to condense into a readable posting. :-) )
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From: Stanislav Jakuba [mailto:jakub...@gmail.com]
To the Editor, Arizona Daily Star,
I could not disagree more with some points made in your 2010-03-06 editorial
about the 100-kilometer stretch of Arizona's I-19 that has signs posted totally
in the metric system of measurement
Stephen,
There is one *and only one* system of units (SI) which has properties of (a)
uniqueness(only one unit for each quantity), (b) coherence(no numerical
coefficients relating units other than the number one), and (c) completeness(a
defined coherent unit for every quantity of interest).
Found on the bell ringers site www.campanophile.co.uk , an event at a
church in Bedfordshire, UK:
Destination 8850m, Two Suffolk Teachers Ascent of Everest
Presentation by Amanda Richmond and Neil Taylor. All Saints Church,
Campton, Bedfordshire. Friday 19th March. Doors open at 7.30pm.
