I sent this quote along earlier in [USMA:17903] but the accented characters and the Greek letter mu did not survive the trip. I believe the problem was that I was using the wrong character map. Compounding that, I had done this as a "reply to" Pat Nauhgtin's message which was in UTF-7 while my browser was set for ISO8859-1; I do not know if that had any effect or not.
The message cited above contained my translation as well and Louis Jourdan's [USMA:17918] message provided a correction. Here again is the quote and it is on page 89, as Joe Reid pointed out. Hopefully, all the special characters will now be sent out correctly (as ISO8859-1 plain text, quoted printable encoding). At least it did when I sent myself a test copy. [quote:] Les pr�fixes "m�ga" et "micro" �taient d�j� employ�s vers 1870 par les �lectriciens; ils furent officiellement adopt�s en France par le d�cret sur les unit�s de mesure du 26 juillet 1919. Les mot "micron" (symbole �), propos� en 1870-1872, fut adopt� par le C.I.P.M. en 1879 pour d�signer le milli�me de millim�tre. Dupuis 1967, l'unit� "micron" est supprim�e; le symbole � est r�serv� pour le pr�fixe "micro" et le milli�me de millim�tre est maintenant d�sign� par "microm�tre", symbole �m. [end quote] Jim -- Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ 10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789
