One of my pet peeves is people using the letter "u" to mean micro. Its a greek letter mu, "μ", and seeing as the entire thing is capitalised here, it could also be "Μ" (uppercase greek mu, not uppercase latin M)
One of my pet peeves is people using the letter "u" to mean micro. Its a greek letter mu, "μ", and seeing as the entire thing is capitalised here, it could also be "Μ" (uppercase greek mu, not uppercase latin M)
The problem is that µ is usually hard to type (unless you have a Greek keyboard or a custom keyboard mapping). This said, although I tolerate stuff like "47 uF" in electronic schematics (also because legacy software didn't even allow the µ symbol), I definitely find horrible to see stuff like "us" instead of "µs" in an article.
I just googled it to type my comment. And if you're using it enough to need quick access, you can do alt + 0181 on your numpad on a windows system
As a (very) frequent "µ" user (and several others like ± and Δ and °) I've had the alt codes memorised for ages but having recently, out of necessity and a bit of a nomad lifestyle, moved to a "tenkeyless" keyboard (the horror), I simply macroed it, but I find it refreshing that some keyboard layouts simply include it. I have an obscure pocket 8-bit with an even more obscure OS written in Sweden that also has µ.
And it's option-m on a Mac.
... that's weird. It's alt gr+ m on every recent finnish keyboard, apparently it's not on us ones?