translations -- or how the times are changing

Mon Dec 1 23:55:46 PST 2014

On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:18 AM, Lutz Vieweg <lvml at 5t9.de> wrote:

> * kg/ℓ - cool, it's a long time ago I actually saw the symbol "ℓ" being
> used
>   for "Litre" - it's perfectly correct, but some younger people might not
> easily
>   recognize it. Most people today are more used to the normal "l" as an
> abbreviation
>   for Litre, and some do not even learn the cursive that ℓ is a glyph of.
>

We use the ℓ to remove confusion from similar characters like 1, l, |, and
I.

Henrik
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