James Turner wrote:
> How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and
> failed miserably ...
This is character 0xb0 in the various ISO 8859 character sets (try
"man ascii" and "man iso_8859_1"), which essentially replace ASCII on
modern systems. US keyboards won't generate t
On Wed, 5 Jun 2002 07:55:20 -0400,
David Megginson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> James Turner writes:
>
> > How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to
> > and failed miserably ...
>
> You mean this: °? It's character code 176 in the ISO-
James Turner writes:
> How do you generate a degree symbol under Linux? I was trying to and
> failed miserably ...
You mean this: °? It's character code 176 in the ISO-8859-1 encoding
(which is usually the default under X11, at least in North America,
Latin America, and Western Europe). Di
On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 01:22 am, Andy Ross wrote:
>
> Heh, that actually sounded kinda fun, so I tried it. Here's the
> smallest parser for your syntax that I could come up with, in good old
> obfuscatorial C style. It sits pleasingly close to the line between
> elegance and perversity.
is it me ( or Outlook ) ?
- Original Message -
From: "James Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:27 AM
Subject: [Flightgear-devel] Parsing Lon/lat strings
> Further to my flight plan hacking (which is coming along nice
James Turner wrote:
> Is there any code in Sim/FlightGear to do generic conversion of a lat /
> lon string into a decimal degree value?
>
> And, if it doesn't exist, any suggestions how do a vaguely elegant
> implementation?
Heh, that actually sounded kinda fun, so I tried it. Here's the
smalles
Further to my flight plan hacking (which is coming along nicely):
Is there any code in Sim/FlightGear to do generic conversion of a lat /
lon string into a decimal degree value?
I.e, something that would accept and convert some / all of the
following:
N50 23.1
-96.32
E00 06.3
into a sign-corre
