tell that the companies and governments not me I fully understand and support your point ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara and/or Bill Hooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 06, 2002 1:17 PM Subject: [USMA:22110] Re: Russian chocolate
> on 9/5/2002 8:29 PM, Wizard of OS at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > yes, russians use cyrillic for units, as same japanese or chinese. > > You make it sound as though you would expect that to be the case and that it > is OK (correct) to do so. It is not. > > It is not correct to use cyrillic, Japanese, or Chinese characters for SI > symbols and it is not always done that way. It is at least sometimes done > correctly. I have seen writings in Japanese, Parsi (Iranian), Arabic and > Greek in which the correct symbols for SI units were used even though those > symbols are not a normal part of the alphabet in those languages. > > > Regards, Bill Hooper > retired physics professor, Florida, USA > > -------------------------------------- > "Simplification" begins with "SI" > -------------------------------------- > > >
