Joe Reid wrote:
> My Microsoft Word User's Guide says that the Windows character set has
> superscript 2 as the Times character 178 and superscript 3 as the Times
> character 179. The symbol character set has double-quotes and
> greater-than-or-equal-to for characters 178 and 179. The Windows symbol
> character for less-than-or-equal-to is 163. The Macintosh
> character set has
> character 178 as the Times character for less-than-or-equal-to and
> double-quotes as the symbol character. Character 179 is
> greater-than-or-equal-to in both Times and symbol sets.
>
> There is clearly a job for ISO in standardizing character sets.
Those usages are not unique to Times, but are common to all conventional
fonts (e.g., Geneva, Helvetica, Arial, Courier, Palatino, etc.)
Bill Potts, CMS
San Jose, CA
http://metric1.org [SI Navigator]
