More seriously I have seen a "micro" character in some usenet posts. I wonder how it got there, and whether other people's clients rendered it correctly.
Let's try "?" which is simply a "special character" inserted into an OpenOffice document then copied/pasted into this message, which I'm composing in SeaMonkey. Since it can also be copied/pasted into a linux/bash command line in the xfce terminal emulator, there's cause for hope.
If it works I don't know whether I'll use it every time and become a major nitpicker with those that don't!
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Tom Gardner
Well, it has apparently worked from my PoV. Has it worked for you? Do you see it as U+03BC or something?
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Tim Wescott
It worked for me.
I'll stick with 'us'.
You could use 'mms'.
Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com
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Tom Gardner
Oh, I'd forgotten about that one! But "us" works in most cases.
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rickman
Only if the interrupt is enabled. Depending on what the code is doing it can be a lot longer. That is the real concern in an ISR.
Rick
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rickman
Going back to my old days when caps were measured in mmf, mms would be a picosecond.
Rick
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Dimiter_Popoff
It worked for me, too. And I have the character available in my editors (text and graphics) under dps but not via a single key; I have used it earlier but I think lately I just use "u".
I suppose I can get used to "us" instead of "uS", but may be an option would be se-6 or sE-6... I still can't quite swallow the thought that S is invalid for seconds. I looked at my very old tek 465B, well, its front panel is also designated with lower case around the timebase knob.
Dimiter
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David Brown
newsreader, there should be no problem with the letter "mu" for micro - it is a standard character in the standard fonts on most systems. If someone has customised their desktop or newsreader to use a weird font with a more limited character range, then it might show up oddly. If there are any fans of command-line newsreaders, they should also see it if they have a utf-8 locale on their systems.
As for typing it, that depends on your system and your keyboard. Windows is (as always) more limited. It should be easy for most non-English keyboard layouts, which separate the "Alt" and the "Alt Gr" keys - on my Norwegian keyboard layout, it's just AltGr-m. But if that doesn't work, character map is probably the least inconvenient method unless you can remember the Alt + numeric keyboard sequence.
For Linux, you have other options. Again, depending on the keyboard layout, AltGr-m is likely to work - certainly on my Norwegian layout I can get a wide range of characters with combinations of AltGr, shift, and different keys. Then there is also the "compose" key - typically, this is not assigned by default, but you can set it up if you want it (I
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Jan Coombs
Or going deviant bigtime, follow the Pharmaceutical industry and use 'MC' ?
Jan Coombs
email valid, else fix dots and hyphen
jan4clf2014@murrayhyphenmicroftdotcodotuk
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rickman
Along with the often used
mu is
The zero is very important. Without it you get other chars.
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John Devereux
Yes if he is relying on a guaranteed interrupt latency he should not turn them off. Also should be top priority irq!
He should not turn the clock down to 1 khz either. Or set his timer output back to a GPIO. Etc.
I don't think it is a good idea to have the deadtime enforced by software, regardless. OP is going to get mighty tired of changing blown FETS during development. I was just responding to the talk above about caches and pipelines and 70us vs 700us latencies. None of that matters on a CM3 if a guaranteed
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John Devereux
Hmm, there was the "slideback sampler" that John Larkin and Mike Monet used to fight about, a decade or two ago in sci.electronics.design.
John Devereux
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Tom Gardner
Don't throw that scope out; there's a thriving market for them on ebay, /especially/ if they are working :) I have the HP equivalent, the HP1740A, and the local hackspace has a near relative, the Tek2213.
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Tom Gardner
Oh, excellent.
Trying the other combinations is going to be a great way of pointing out to idiot companies that valid email addresses aren't limited to roman alphanumeric characters.
won't notice the inaccuracy.
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David Brown
Both of these work in Linux, but not Windows.
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David Brown
UTF-8 characters should, in theory, work in email addresses - but only in theory. In practice, you can expect trouble somewhere along the line.
But UTF-8 characters should be fine in email bodies, as long as they are
How do these ones turn out?
Real numbers: ? Mho (inverted Ohmega): ? Aleph: ? Set membership: ? fi ligature: ? alpha: ? beta: ? infinity: ?
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Tom Gardner
My objection is to web pages where I fill in my email address and their stupid validation procedure rejects it. Even worse is the case where one of the company's systems accept it and others reject it - which can make it impossible for their internal staff to change it!
I like using foo+ snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com when communicating with Scrotty Co, so I can track leaks and easily filter messages.
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Tom Gardner
It more often occurred on their on-screen displays, e.g. the first one I came across:
formatting link
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Tom Gardner
As far as I can tell from mostly dead links, similar but not quite the same.
Given that it is solely a hobby project, I would expect my performance to be worse. For example, if someone mentions jitter then I will shut my eyes, put my hands over my ears and sing "la la la".
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Dimiter_Popoff
I now remember seeing that as well on newer scopes than my 465B (which works and I am not planning to part with, it was THE scope back in the day when I wanted to build one I was looking up to :-). I may well have taken it from there.
I suppose the capital S is justified though. While invalid in "normal" text, put into context - as on a scope display - it deals with the "us" ambiguity which might be annoying at a subconscious level not only to me. Well I may only be looking for an excuse to not start changing the S in the spectrometry software on our devices :-).
Dimiter
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