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
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