Re: Square metres etc. in English

"Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio
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> Mike Clark wrote:
>
> > If you had to choose one of the four alternatives I listed in my
original Q,
> > which was intended for GB English readers/writers - so no meters, but
> > metres - which would you opt for?
>
> Given the alternatives - 10 sqm, 10 sq.m. 10sq.m., 10sqm - and being
> pointed at with a gun, with no joking involved, I would select
> "10 sq.m." None of the alternatives is correct. "10 square metres"
> would certainly be correct British English, and "10 m²" (using
> some method of expressing the "2" as superscript) is the correct
> way when using unit symbols.
>
> > On several occasions in the past my superscript 2 or 3 has finished up
> > printed as a normal number (perhaps due to file
transmission/conversion?),
> > so (unless I'm sure of being able to see a draft of the document before
it
> > goes to press) I'd rather use one of the ones I listed
>
> I'd rather check, or make other people check, what goes wrong in the
> process. If the superscripts, when expressed as characters, do not work
> properly, the odds are that all non-ASCII characters go wrong as well.
> That's too big a risk to live with.
>
> Even "m2", with normal (non-superscript) digit "2", might be more
> tolerable than "sq m" or similar notations.

Would this hold according to you for feet, as well as metres?....The reason
I ask is that sq.ft. is in all my English dictionaries.
Mike


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    ... which was intended for GB English readers/writers - so no meters, but metres - which would you opt for? ... some method of expressing the "2" as superscript) is the correct ... If the superscripts, when expressed as characters, do not work properly, the odds are that all non-ASCII characters go wrong as well. ...
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  • Re: Square metres etc. in English
    ... >> Mike Clark wrote: ... >>> a draft of the document before it goes to press) I'd rather use one ... If the superscripts, when expressed as characters, do not ... the odds are that all non-ASCII characters go wrong as ...
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