Re: Unit Scaling Prefixes

[John Trammell <trammell@FN872.FNAL.GOV>]

Hello all:

James McLean <jmclean@CHEM.UCSD.EDU> wrote:

> There is a standard, used by a large number of personal computers (what
> is it, 5%? 10%?)  It's the Apple extended (8-bit) ASCII set, and it's
> been around for many years.  It doesn't have everything you could
> possibly want, but it has a lot of useful characters.  And both the
> internal representation and the typed key-sequences to access them are
> uniform across all applications.
>
> <Tongue in cheek mode on>
> It's only those hobbled with WinDOS and UNIX systems that have a problem
> on their hands.
> <Tongue in cheek mode off>

Bah -- those Apple people always do things half-way.  Why not use
the 16-bit Unicode standard, with room for the full Latin, Greek,
Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, and other alphabets, plus symbols?

Thank you Java, for making programming truly international.

Cheers,
John