On Jul 11, 0:11, Alain LaBonté wrote: > And it takes what it takes to have the EURO SIGN in 8-bit technology, Yet, I deem it utmost unfortunate that the standard committee has sacri- ficed the Plusminus Sign, of all characters -- thus abandoning the aptnes of ISO 8899-n for most technical and scientific texts. Remember, ISO 8859-1 comprises all characters usually needed for the representation of values in SI units (according to ISO 1000), viz. the exponents «²» and «³», the «µ» for «mikro», the «°» for the degree, and the «'» and «"» for its parts. (The missing Capital Omega used for electrical resistance can be replaced by its equivalent, «V/A», or by the word «Ohm"). In technical and scientific texts, such values are often, if not to say mostly, accompanied by tolerances or margins of error, delimited by the ubiquitous Plusminus Sign («±», while I still have it :-) The proposed «+-» is not an adequate fall-back, as this sequence, though rarely used, has already a fixed mathematical meaning, quite different from «±»; and even, if a reader would deduce the intended meaning, «±», from the context, «+-» in lieu of «±» will hurt a physicist's æsthetic feelings at least as much as «oe» in lieu of an o-e ligature a Francophone's. So, if there is any chance to revise that unfortunate decision, please do seize it. Best wishes, Otto Stolz