From owner-cvs-all Sun Jan 6 16:37:52 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mail.acns.ab.ca (h24-64-56-135.cg.shawcable.net [24.64.56.135]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A610B37B417; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 16:37:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from colnta.acns.ab.ca (colnta.acns.ab.ca [192.168.1.2]) by mail.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g070bMI33777; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:37:22 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc@colnta.acns.ab.ca) Received: (from davidc@localhost) by colnta.acns.ab.ca (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g070bLq03058; Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:37:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from davidc) Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 17:37:21 -0700 From: Chad David To: Greg Lehey Cc: Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Abbreviating units (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c) Message-ID: <20020106173721.A3043@colnta.acns.ab.ca> Mail-Followup-To: Greg Lehey , Jens Schweikhardt , Garrett Wollman , Matt Dillon , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org References: <200201060458.g064w9626629@freefall.freebsd.org> <200201060550.g065oGn35131@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20020106152104.A4955@schweikhardt.net> <20020107105949.H45844@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020107105949.H45844@wantadilla.lemis.com>; from grog@FreeBSD.org on Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:59:49AM +1030 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Jan 07, 2002 at 10:59:49AM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > > In Australia, they use "L" to represent litres. The Commonwealth > Style Guide claims that this is the correct international > abbreviation. I don't know anywhere else where it's a capital, but > that doesn't mean it's wrong this way (just looks it :-). Can anybody > confirm or deny? I've always written 'L' for litres, and my milk says 4L (the container beside it say 475mL) if that means anything :). -- Chad David davidc@acns.ab.ca ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message