As is so often true (and maddeningly so), some of what I was discussing about printing the degrees symbol was itself garbled by the transmission through the internet and to other computers.
On Mar 5 , at 2:55 PM, Howard Ressel wrote that he received this and similar sections of my recent posting. Clearly, I had entered <option-k> for the degrees symbol as it appeared on MY computer when I wrote it. By the time it got through to Howard and back to me again, the supposed degrees symbol had changed to an asterisk >> Using <option-k> instead, these become: >> >> 20 *C is comfortable >> The degree symbol is " * ". >> 32 *F = 0 *C >> A right angle is 90*. I don't know at this point whether Howard received it OK and the garbling of the message occurred in the return transmission to me, or if it was already garbled by the time Howard received it. If what I wrote is if use to anyone, I'm satisfied. I'm sure many of you received the message inaccurately translated by the internet or you own computer. If that's the case, you'll just have to ignore my suggestions. It is to be hoped that at some happy point in the (distant) future, we will find that all computers and transmission facilities will be using the same codes for various special characters so that we can successfully print and transmit special symbols like pi (π), degrees Celsius (˚C or °C or ºC, each of these having been entered using a different code for the degrees sign), the SI prefix micro-, l.c. mu (µ), the SI unit for electrical resistance ohms, capital omega (Ω), etc. Regards, Bill Hooper Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA ========================== Make It Simple; Make It Metric! ==========================
