Re: [ARSCLIST] The person responds was Thin tape decay

["Nigel Champion (FOA ANT)" <n.champion@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>dsbardella@xxxxxxxx wrote:

>> Indeed it is.  The fact is, most of that post was copied directly from 
>> a IASA document, micro meter symbols included.  Somehow the symbol 
>> must have been reinterpreted as mm when copied on the LISTSERVE.  I 
>> guess the lesson is "let copier/paster beware".

>mrichter@xxxxxxx wrote:

> No, the lesson is: let those using characters beyond the standard set
> accept the consequences. An o-umlaut, e-dieresis, or other Greek letter
> may look just fine in your word processor or e-mail client, but once
> sent to another it may be expected to transmogrify.

And perhaps if Bill Gates had done his globe-trotting at a younger age, today's computers might better accommodate that part of the world's population not resident in the US.

Kia ora
Nigel

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Nigel Champion
Archive of Māori & Pacific Music
The University of Auckland
New Zealand