I just had a look at www.australia.com and found the
USA version contained much metric. Look however at
www.southaustralia.comand you will seethat our tourist commissionhave not only used
only US Customary measurements, butalso used US Customary spelling too.
Below is taken from
I confess I just went to the US version of the weather page on the site
and saw only Fahrenheit temperatures. (The Canadian and UK versions used
Celsius only.) Based on this I leapt to the conclusion (erroneous, from
what you saw for yourself) that the entire US version of the site
exclusively
Thanks for the assistance. I am now using ISO-8859-15 (select Latin 9 ISO
in Outlook). Unlike ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-15 contains the euro symbol.
Selecting the option:
'Auto-Select encoding for outgoing messages'
will change the encoding back to us-ascii if there are only ascii characters
in the
Jason,
I find two inspectors listed for Fairbanks:
Scott Bowen; 907-451-2862; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
and
Dewey Emerick; 907-451-2862; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene.
Gene, I thank you very much for this information! I will contact both of
them on Monday. -- Jason
- Original Message -
From: Gene Mechtly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: U.S. Metric Association [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Eugene A. Mechtly [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Metric Forum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Terry Simpson wrote:
Outlook selects an encoding that is
capable of representing all the characters, and that is optimized so that
the majority of the receiving e-mail programs can interpret and render the
content properly.
I'm still using Office 2000 (and, therefore, Outlook 2000), having seen
just read some atricles.
100 % metric!!
Yah BUT using -re notation.
bye
http://www.newscientist.com/hottopics/tech/article.jsp?id=3897sub=Security%20and%20Defence
Electricity consumption per capita (kilowatt-hours)
http://www.undp.org/hdr2003/indicator/indic_177_1_1.html
24779 Iceland
24422 Norway
15620 Canada
14994 Qatar
14588 Finland
14471 Sweden
13995 Kuwait
13050 Luxembourg
12331 United States
10725 United Arab Emirates
9006 Australia
8813 New Zealand
Thanks Terry for filling in the blanks to clear up that one.
Pulling this (a bit) back on topic, I always thought kilowatt-hours were
strange enough, but here (and in earlier posts) we have kilowatt-hours per
year... mashing THREE time units (including second, of course) together!
This reminds
