on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:17:31AM -0700, Tim May (tcmay@got.net) wrote:
On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
Dare I say it? Another reason to use just 7-bit ASCII.
I'm not particularly religious on this issue, but for text-based discussions like the ones we have here, anything else just doesn't seem necessary, and can lead to strange results like what we just saw.
As for the "degrees" issue, confusion about the symbol was one of the reasons the scientific community abandoned use of the symbol at least 30 years ago. 212 F and 100 C are the accepted ways of reporting temperature...the degree symbol was redundant anyway and led to typesetting problems.
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