Re: The currently accepted symbol for liter (l or L?)

[Rich Oesterling <ogr@inel.gov>]

On Wed, 3 May 1995, Andrew Welsh wrote:

> Hi everyone
> 
> I would appreciating hearing from anyone on this list who is aware of 
> international standards/documents which recommend the current symbol 
> for litre.  It is a non-SI unit, so there is quite a bit of 
> inconsistency around the world.

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Andrew -

Because of possible misunderstandings, one technical writer's guide with 
which I am familiar recommends always spelling out the word.  The usual 
USA spelling is "liter".

One might expect your question to start an interesting thread on the use 
of non-SI units. ;-)

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