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- Subject: New Ticket - [Support !DOV-245654]: case of unit names
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 11:24:39 -0700
New Ticket: case of unit names Dear Steve I was surprised to find that the cf-checker accepted DAYS as a valid unit, but I understand from Ros and the udunits guide that in udunits-2 the names of units (not the symbols) are case-insensitive. I am pretty sure that it is quite often stated that units names (at least SI) are lower case. For instance, it is "joule", not "Joule", despite its being named after a person. The detailed NIST guide, which udunits follows, also appears to uphold this in sect 9.1 of http://physics.nist.gov/Pubs/SP811/sec09.html "When spelled out in full, unit names are treated like ordinary English nouns. Thus the names of all units start with a lower-case letter, except at the beginning of a sentence or in capitalized material such as a title." Could udunits-2 be made to follow this rule? Best wishes Jonathan Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: DOV-245654 Department: Support Priority: Normal Status: Open Link: https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/esupport/staff/index.php?_m=tickets&_a=viewticket&ticketid=12807
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