RE: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint.
Good call, Steve! With that in hand, you can easily (under Windows) enter both marks directly from the keyboard. There is a means (perhaps not well known) supported by most MS and many non-MS programs, to enter any Unicode character. Using the numeric keypad (NOT the top row of numbers above QWERY), hold down the Alt key while you enter the 4-digit decimal number that represents the Unicode character. The Unicode digits, e.g. 00B0 for degree, are in hexadecimal so need to be “translated” to decimal first; for degree, that’s 0176. So, entering Alt-0176 (you don’t type the dash) gives me °. The Combining Dot Below is U-0323 and its decimal representation is 0803. There are only a few you need to memorize or make a cheat sheet for. I entered the notes below in Word, then pasted them here in Outlook. Hopefully, they come through the maillist system intact! Degree: ° (Alt-0176 = 00B0h) With Comb Dot: °̣ (Alt-0176 Alt-0803 = 0323h) Minute: ‘̣ Second: “̣ There are other useful characters, such as ± (Alt-0177), ² (Alt-0178), etc., but you can get them all from a Unicode table or from Windows’ Character Map. (Start All Programs System Tools Character Map) Hovering over any character will give a pop-up hint with its Unicode representation. Dave _ From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Steve Lelievre Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:25 AM To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint. On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote: It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them. Start There are a block of unicode characters called Combining Diacritical Marks which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82 9A) which is a Combining Katakana-Hirangana Semi-voiced sound mark (but it looks very much like the degree symbol (U-00B0). When this character is 'typed' after a period, you get a character that is almost, but not quite, aligned: This is the unicode typed in as characters: 127.゚42 Perhaps also consider the required symbol followed by Combining Dot Below U-0323 ( see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/323/index.htm ) For example in MS Word a ring, prime and double prime, each followed by Combining Dot Below give Steve image002.jpg--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint.
Interesting Thanks Steve and Dave. I use the Alt codes all the time for degrees, Greek and accents in Word. But my version of Word and my email program doesn't do the Com Dot trick. WordPad does. While you are looking at System Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try the scientific calculator. Use the Dec and Hex buttons to toggle back and forth between decimal and hexadecimal numbers. Regards, Roger Bailey From: Dave Bell Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 10:12 AM To: 'Sundial list' Subject: RE: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes,seconds above the decimalpoint. Good call, Steve! With that in hand, you can easily (under Windows) enter both marks directly from the keyboard. There is a means (perhaps not well known) supported by most MS and many non-MS programs, to enter any Unicode character. Using the numeric keypad (NOT the top row of numbers above QWERY), hold down the Alt key while you enter the 4-digit decimal number that represents the Unicode character. The Unicode digits, e.g. 00B0 for degree, are in hexadecimal so need to be “translated” to decimal first; for degree, that’s 0176. So, entering Alt-0176 (you don’t type the dash) gives me °. The Combining Dot Below is U-0323 and its decimal representation is 0803. There are only a few you need to memorize or make a cheat sheet for. I entered the notes below in Word, then pasted them here in Outlook. Hopefully, they come through the maillist system intact! Degree: ° (Alt-0176 = 00B0h) With Comb Dot: °̣ (Alt-0176 Alt-0803 = 0323h) Minute: ‘̣ Second: “̣ There are other useful characters, such as ± (Alt-0177), ² (Alt-0178), etc., but you can get them all from a Unicode table or from Windows’ Character Map. (Start All Programs System Tools Character Map) Hovering over any character will give a pop-up hint with its Unicode representation. Dave From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Steve Lelievre Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:25 AM To: Sundial list Subject: Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint. On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote: It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the application used to render them. Start There are a block of unicode characters called Combining Diacritical Marks which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82 9A) which is a Combining Katakana-Hirangana Semi-voiced sound mark (but it looks very much like the degree symbol (U-00B0). When this character is 'typed' after a period, you get a character that is almost, but not quite, aligned: This is the unicode typed in as characters: 127.゚42 Perhaps also consider the required symbol followed by Combining Dot Below U-0323 ( see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/323/index.htm ) For example in MS Word a ring, prime and double prime, each followed by Combining Dot Below give Steve --- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3204/6470 - Release Date: 07/06/13 - No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3345 / Virus Database: 3204/6470 - Release Date: 07/06/13 image002.jpg--- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint.
I've been holding back on adding to the flood on notes about Unicode
methods for introducing degree and other symbols into e-mail and
documents. But, not having seen this, there are a number of
websites that have tables of Unicode symbols that can be inserted
with the alt-(number code) method in MS documents. The tables
provide number codes in decimal, hex, and html formats. The tables
are large and include not just degrees, the "back space put a dot
under" code, and planet symbols, but lots of others including
several alphabets. See, for example,
http://www.tamasoft.co.jp/en/general-info/unicode-decimal.html
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html
http://www.grogllc.com/unicodetable.html
Interesting Thanks Steve and
Dave.
I use the Alt codes all the time
for degrees, Greekand accents in Word. But my version of Word
and my email programdoesn't do the Com Dot trick. WordPad
does.
While you are looking at System
Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try the scientific
calculator. Use the Dec and Hex buttons to toggle back and
forth between decimal and hexadecimal numbers.
Regards, Roger Bailey
From: Dave Bell
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 10:12 AM
To: 'Sundial list'
Subject: RE: Unicode characters for degrees,
minutes,seconds above the decimalpoint.
Good
call, Steve!
With
that in hand, you can easily (under Windows) enter both
marks directly from the keyboard.
There
is a means (perhaps not well known) supported by most MS
and many non-MS programs, to enter any Unicode character.
Using
the numeric keypad (NOT the top row of numbers above
QWERY), hold down the Alt key while you enter the 4-digit
decimal number that represents the
Unicode character.
The
Unicode digits, e.g. 00B0 for degree, are in hexadecimal
so need to be translated to decimal first; for degree,
thats 0176.
So,
entering Alt-0176 (you dont type the dash) gives me .
The
Combining Dot Below is U-0323 and its decimal
representation is 0803.
There
are only a few you need to memorize or make a cheat sheet
for.
I
entered the notes below in Word, then pasted them here in
Outlook.
Hopefully,
they come through the maillist system intact!
Degree:
(Alt-0176 = 00B0h)
With Comb Dot:
(Alt-0176 Alt-0803 = 0323h)
Minute:
Second:
There
are other useful characters, such as (Alt-0177),
(Alt-0178), etc., but you can get them all from a Unicode
table or from Windows Character Map.
(Start
All Programs System Tools
Character Map)
Hovering
over any character will give a pop-up hint with its
Unicode representation.
Dave
From: sundial
[mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Steve
Lelievre
Sent:
Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:25 AM
To:
Sundial list
Subject:
Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds
above the decimalpoint.
On 06/07/2013
8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
It can be
done, but how the characters are rendered depends very
much on the application used to render them.
Start
There are a block of unicode
characters called "Combining Diacritical Marks" which are
used to modify the preceding character. These characters
include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82 9A) which is
a "Combining Katakana-Hirangana Semi-voiced sound mark"
(but it looks very much like the degree symbol (U-00B0).
When this character is 'typed' after a period, you get a
character that is almost, but not quite, aligned:
This is the
unicode
RE: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the decimalpoint.
“While you are looking at System Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try
the scientific calculator. Use the Dec and Hex buttons to toggle back and forth
between decimal and hexadecimal numbers.”
Yup. Left as an exercise for the student… :{)
_
From: Roger Bailey [mailto:rtbai...@telus.net]
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:19 PM
To: Dave Bell; 'Sundial list'
Subject: Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes,seconds above the
decimalpoint.
Interesting Thanks Steve and Dave.
I use the Alt codes all the time for degrees, Greek and accents in Word. But my
version of Word and my email program doesn't do the Com Dot trick. WordPad does.
While you are looking at System Tools for the Character Map or Notepad, try the
scientific calculator. Use the Dec and Hex buttons to toggle back and forth
between decimal and hexadecimal numbers.
Regards, Roger Bailey
From: Dave Bell mailto:db...@thebells.net
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 10:12 AM
To: 'Sundial list' mailto:sundial@uni-koeln.de
Subject: RE: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes,seconds above the
decimalpoint.
Good call, Steve!
With that in hand, you can easily (under Windows) enter both marks directly
from the keyboard.
There is a means (perhaps not well known) supported by most MS and many non-MS
programs, to enter any Unicode character.
Using the numeric keypad (NOT the top row of numbers above QWERY), hold down
the Alt key while you enter the 4-digit decimal number that represents the
Unicode character.
The Unicode digits, e.g. 00B0 for degree, are in hexadecimal so need to be
“translated” to decimal first; for degree, that’s 0176.
So, entering Alt-0176 (you don’t type the dash) gives me °.
The Combining Dot Below is U-0323 and its decimal representation is 0803.
There are only a few you need to memorize or make a cheat sheet for.
I entered the notes below in Word, then pasted them here in Outlook.
Hopefully, they come through the maillist system intact!
Degree: ° (Alt-0176 = 00B0h)
With Comb Dot: °̣ (Alt-0176 Alt-0803 = 0323h)
Minute: ‘̣
Second: “̣
There are other useful characters, such as ± (Alt-0177), ² (Alt-0178), etc.,
but you can get them all from a Unicode table or from Windows’ Character Map.
(Start All Programs System Tools Character Map)
Hovering over any character will give a pop-up hint with its Unicode
representation.
Dave
_
From: sundial [mailto:sundial-boun...@uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Steve Lelievre
Sent: Saturday, July 06, 2013 5:25 AM
To: Sundial list
Subject: Re: Unicode characters for degrees, minutes, seconds above the
decimalpoint.
On 06/07/2013 8:38 AM, Barry Wainwright wrote:
It can be done, but how the characters are rendered depends very much on the
application used to render them.
Start There are a block of unicode characters called Combining Diacritical
Marks which are used to modify the preceding character. These characters
include unicode character U-309A (UTF-8 E3 82 9A) which is a Combining
Katakana-Hirangana Semi-voiced sound mark (but it looks very much like the
degree symbol (U-00B0). When this character is 'typed' after a period, you get
a character that is almost, but not quite, aligned:
This is the unicode typed in as characters: 127.゚42
Perhaps also consider the required symbol followed by Combining Dot Below
U-0323 ( see http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/323/index.htm )
For example in MS Word a ring, prime and double prime, each followed by
Combining Dot Below give
Steve
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