on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:17:31AM -0700, Tim May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote: > > > Dare I say it? Another reason to use just 7-bit ASCII. > > > > I'm not particularly religious on this issue, but for text-based > > discussions like the ones we have here, anything else just doesn't > > seem necessary, and can lead to strange results like what we just saw.
> As for the "degrees" issue, confusion about the symbol was one of the > reasons the scientific community abandoned use of the symbol at least > 30 years ago. 212 F and 100 C are the accepted ways of reporting > temperature...the degree symbol was redundant anyway and led to > typesetting problems. Thanks, wasn't aware of that. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Home of the brave http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ Land of the free Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! http://www.freesklyarov.org Geek for Hire http://kmself.home.netcom.com/resume.html [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]
