I was in Canada yesterday and went to a grocery store. It is interesting that milk is
sold in 2 L gable top containers but juice is 1.89 L containers (although it appears
to be the same size container). There are a lot of products labeled only in metric but
in soft odd sizes. It is strange seeing an ad or a sign for (and this is a made up
example) Tide L\laundry detergent 454 g. With all the trucks coming in to the US and
few going the other way. With all those Canadian products coming into the US I'm
surprised there is not more influence on developing rational sizes of Canadian
produced products for use in Canada and shipment to the US.
It was also disappointing that the price on produce was more prominently displaced in
pounds than in grams. Grocers in England have been arrested for such offences, what is
the law in Canada?
Howard Ressel
Metric manager, NYSDOT Region 4
>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/24/02 08:35PM >>>
In a message dated 2002-09-24 13:02:37 Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> At 18:38 +0200 02/09/24, Louis JOURDAN wrote:
> >At 12:20 -0400 02/09/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >No, there's also an ALT button on the right side. This one lets you
> >use additional characters, mostly accents plus that thingy that
> >hangs under the C
>
> We call it "c�dille". Nice, is it not? When "hanging" under the C, C
> is pronounced as S. Who said tha French was difficult?
>
> BTW, I am just typing a "�" ("C c�dille") on my keyboard. How does it
> appear on your screen?
>
> And just to remain on-topic, there is no SI unit with a "C C�dille".
> What a chance!
>
> Louis
>
It came through perfectly. Actually, I correct myself: there is only one
alt key, on the left, which acts normally. The right side alt key also acts
as an alt key but also shifts the characters on some of the keys.
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