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erikc wrote:
> Kathy Quinlan wrote:
> 
>>Thomas Keller wrote:
> 
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> 
>>>  I would like to note that I was not challanging Peter on that issue,
>>>I honestly didn't understant the notation, just as I didn't understand
>>>his schematic notation.
>>>
>>>Tom
>>
>>This is not so much a "British" thing as a "German" thing, with the Din 
>>and ISO standards for drafting, all decimal points are replaced by a 
>>letter indicating the decimal point eg a 1.2K resistor is 1K2, bellow 1K 
>>we use an R as it is easier to draft than an omega.
> 
> Also, omega is not found in most character sets.  I for one would be 
> happy to at least see lower case mu, pi, and the uppercase omega in any 
> of the standard character sets since I use those symbols all the time in 
> my (technical) writing.

Switch to a unicode locale and configure your keyboard to put the greek
symbols into the second group (using xkb in linux).

>>I agree that it different, but it is just what you are used to.
> 
> Actually, I find it such a sensible form of notation that I now use it 
> myself (I'm a Yank)  ;-)
> 
> An OT question of my own:  On European drawings, they use a certain very 
> legible font-face when labelling thier drawings.  I'm wondering if that 
> font isn't also a DIN/ISO specification as well, and if so, what is it.