Scott:
It's not really odd. The three-digit version is straight ASCII (ISO 646).
The one with the leading zero conforms to an ANSI standard (I forget which
one). Microsoft allows both.
The ANSI standard is more useful as it covers a wider range of characters.
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
> -----Original Message-----
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> Behalf Of Scott Clauss
> Sent: 2000, October 30 11:48
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:8872] RE: Fw: Les Accents
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> > > Metric prefix for micro, as in microgram, microliter
> > > Alt230 µ µg µL
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>
> Interesting I've alway used "Alt0181" for µ.
> Both work. Here is "Alt230" => µ.
>
> Both select the same box in the character map too. To a former mac user
> this seems odd.
>
> Scott C.
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