On 2014-01-12, at 07:06, John Gilmore wrote:
>     ... [HLASM advocacy redacted.]
> I also prefer to use 'µ', 'µµ', 'µµµ', or 'µµ...µ', one or more
> instances of the Greek minuscule, to display the positions of such
> characters.  It is widely available (for use in such constructs as
> µsec) but even less used than '¬' or '»'.   (Doing so of course brings
> in train a local requirement to write, say, 'microsec' instead of
> 'µsec'; but I have not found this onerous.)
>  
It's Whac-a-Mole; you can't win.  Whatever character you use to
represent TAB (e.g. "⇥") becomes itself inaccessible.

And I need to Reply to this via email.  Using the Web Reply
function, your 'µ' "gets sliced and  diced."  *Daarrennn!*
(I know; it's Eric Thomas, not Darren.  But he could pass the
word.)

-- gil

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