actually the point is right here ->. (you see?)

just kidding

Does german and english text indicate units on the bar?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Elwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2002 10:34 PM
Subject: [USMA:22091] Re: Russian chocolate


> At 10:29 PM 5 September 2002 +0200, Wizard of OS wrote:
> >yes, russians use cyrillic for units, as same japanese or chinese.
> >
> >I suppose those bars are imported!
>
> The point is that SI "symbols" are not as universally used as one might
hope.
>
> I have seen food wrappers from Japan that clearly use the Latin-based
> symbols in the Japanese writing. So some countries do this, but not all of
> them.
>
>
> Jim Elwell, CAMS
> Electrical Engineer
> Industrial manufacturing manager
> Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
> www.qsicorp.com
>

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