Measurement unit names

[Arthur Atkins]

The units of measurement given for map data in Visio are US Units and Metric
units. This is in fact untrue, the true name for non-metric units should be
"Imperial Units" since yards, miles and inches were not developed in America
but were in fact developed originally in Europe and were used by the British
long before America even existed on the map.

Many thanks, I feel this suggestion is very important along with addressing
many standards in Microsoft products that relate entirely to America, for
instance the default language being "American English". The very nature of
"English" should be British English, we did after all invent the language,
and when installed on a computer system in Britian the default should be the
Queen's English, clearly not this so called American English.

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[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Visio used to refer to units as Imperial, but that caused confusion because
the version of Visio sold in England had metric and not imperial. Thus the
units are now referred to as US. It would be more correct to talk about
imperial and metric units and US and European versions of the product.

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Mark Nelson
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[John Marshall, MVP]

and US and European versions of the product.

That's right Mark, forget about Canada! ;-)

John... Visio MVP

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[Mark Nelson [MS]]

Thanks, John. That reminds me of a common complaint from Canada about Visio
assuming the wrong printer page size. My understanding is that most people
use Metric units and Letter size paper. Of course, Visio defaults metric
pages to the European A4 size paper. Just something else we need to
reconsider.

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[John Marshall, MVP]

Canada is a bit of a mix. A series paper is hard to find, while letter,
legal and tabloid ar every common and though metric is the standard, you
will still find people using Imperial units.

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