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Old Fluke Multimeters
GregDunn:
Most modern keyboards should be able to type it directly as well; it's a UTF-8 / ISO-8859 / Mac / Windows "0xB1" and an HTML code "±"
frozenfrogz:
Unicode support is actually quite new to the forums (½ to ¾ of a year or so). Before, there was only basic ASCII support and I am very glad those times are over. :)
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FIY: The \$\Omega\$ emoji is a relic from that time that can now pleasantly be substituted by the true Ω char.
bitseeker:
--- Quote from: frozenfrogz on October 27, 2018, 11:54:26 pm ---FYI: The \$\Omega\$ emoji is a relic from that time that can now pleasantly be substituted by the true Ω char.
--- End quote ---
Thank goodness. I remember trying a real ohm before and, although it appeared correctly in the editor, it didn't display properly in the post. The emoji just doesn't fit in well with text, especially prefixes such as MΩ.
Martin.M:
:box: analog vs. digital, after 45 minutes of warmup :box:
will John Fluke win the round?
frozenfrogz:
--- Quote from: bitseeker on October 29, 2018, 01:27:57 am ---Thank goodness. I remember trying a real ohm before and, although it appeared correctly in the editor, it didn't display properly in the post. The emoji just doesn't fit in well with text, especially prefixes such as MΩ.
--- End quote ---
Yes. Sad times. You could compensate a little by using the sub tag and a bigger font, but finally having unicode support is a blessing. I remember we had to put up a small fight, because Dave was afraid switching to unicode meant having people also write in Japanese, Russian and other languages, but we could provide enough evidence to persuade. :)
After all, writing a post that looked fine in the preview just to find the posted version missing a bunch of chars just wasn’t right.
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