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Before Unicode, 'μ' was typically entered as an 'm' in a Greek font. This can go wrong in several ways, like if you converted the document to plain text, or if
by tlb 3y ago
Before Unicode, 'μ' was typically entered as an 'm' in a Greek font. This can go wrong in several ways, like if you converted the document to plain text, or if your laser printer didn't have the font and it substituted a regular font, you're suddenly off by a factor of 1000. 'mc' is ugly but safe.
- marcosdumay 3y agoInteresting. There's that too. I assumed it was because of the phonetic similarity.
- danbruc 3y agoWhat time period, system and region are we talking about? For some characters using a specific font was certainly necessary but for µ? It is in the original IBM PC character set from 1981 and could easily be put into plain text files. I would guess that most extended ASCII character sets contain it but I don't know for sure. Every [German] keyboard I ever used had it on the M key.
- tlb 3y agoI remember having to get a µ that way using FrameMaker on SunOS 4 in the mid-90s. Mac had a µ from the beginning. And some PC code pages did. But PCs in Canada (where I'm from) used code page 850, which had an Á (for French) where µ would be. Just the sort of thing that would hose you if you tried printing a Mac document on a school printer. Here's a howto article that suggests using an 'm' in the Symbol font in Word: https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2016/tips/how_to_insert_micro_sign_or_mu_symbol_in_word.html https://www.officetooltips.com/word_2016/tips/how_to_insert_...