I'm extremely wroth with the founders of ASCII for failing to include "degree".
But then it isn't on the American keyboard either, and I think that's what they took as a guide. The manual typist would use a lower-case "o" half a line high. (A typewriter spaced on picas[1], but the platen clicked on half-picas. The return lever would turn it two clicks.) But then really-old typewriters didn't have "1" and "!" either (which explains why those two characters are on the same key). An 'l' looks exactly like a "1", and you can make a "!" by holding down the space bar to prevent the carriage from advancing while you type "." and "'". Come to think of it, when writing HTML, I still use a superscript "o" for the degree sign. I wonder whether some browsers render it "^o". [1] A pica is twelve points, a point is 1/72 inch or about .3 mm. -- Joy Beeson http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ http://home.earthlink.net/~dbeeson594/ROUGHSEW/ROUGH.HTM http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A. where it might snow for the first time this fall. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
