Re: PC internet page with strange math/greek character

[Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Can you provide a link to the page?

On Mon, Dec 14, 2009 at 6:41 PM, Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti <
afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Searching thru internet I come to a page with some technical/chemical data.
> Values are supposed to be very small, so I would assume 0,001 show as
> 1x10(pow -3), or in normal writing 1 mX where X be the main unit, thus
> "m" standing for "one-thousand" of X.
>
> Similarly, I would assume "one-millionth" fraction to show as micro-X,
> usually writen with the greek "mu" letter as "mu"X.
> But the page I'm looking at shows a small character, not displayable at
> all:
> - with Mozilla Firefox it shows as a small (1 char size) square, with
> very small tiny numbers inside, kind of like x'0003', but first two
> zeros on top, then 03 in the base line, all four of them inside the
> small square.
> - with IE 8, it shows also as a small (smaller than Mozilla's) square,
> but empy.
>
> I assume it's the "mu" greek char that stands for "one-millionth" , but
> would like to show it some how, and be able to print it as well.  I've
> tried different ways:
> - ask to see the html code page: same small squares come up
> - in Mozilla/IE8, view/character codepage ... etc trying Unicode (8, 16,
> 32...) , or Greek, or Latin,... in all combinations I can think of,
> - copy/paste from html page to WORD, ...
> to no success at all.
>
> Can you suggest any other ways to see that small character in the html
> page?
>
> I know that working with WORD in a technical document, I can insert all
> kinds of math/greek/arrows/etc chars with no problem, the rest of
> document in normal way, and everything shows OK.
>
> So, can I display that internet page somehow to show that small
> character in a normal fashion?
> TIA
>
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> Antonio Fernandez-Vicenti
> afvaiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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