Re: [gpsd-dev] &mu s

[Beat Bolli]

On 19.10.13 17:10, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> Håkan Johansson <address@hidden>:
>> In metric land, a capital 'S' is Siemens (electrical conductance),
>> and a miniscule 's' is seconds.  So if a lower-case 's' is good for
>> non-metric too, that looks cleaner to me than 'sec' or 'Sec' or
>> anything else.
> 
> I agree with Håkan.  This was my original usage in the HOWTO - I
> conscously went with proper SI nomenclature (rather than folk practice
> among radio hams).  In order to avoid bikeshedding, I'm not going to
> change it back.  Yet, at least.  That kind of style war should be
> deferred until after we have the content right.
>  
>> That does however not deal with the nastier greek micro prefix letter.
> 
> Which is why I put in a units table.  It means we can use either convention
> without loss of clarity.

Shouldn't we just give in and use UTF-8 in the documents? I'm aware that
this wouldn't be *ASCIIDoc* anymore :-) Do those tools handle UTF-8?

Regards,
Beat
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