Thanks. I also figured out its not very hard to write a macro and add a button to add the symbol. Thanks for defining the differences between the masculine symbol and degree symbol. --
"Go for a Metric America" Howard Ressel Project Design Engineer, Region 4 (585) 272-3372 >>> On 3/5/2010 at 5:36 PM, in message <[email protected]>, Bill Hooper <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 (*), 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 (*), etc. > > > > Regards, > Bill Hooper > Fernandina Beach, Florida, USA > > ========================== > Make It Simple; Make It Metric! > ==========================
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