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On Tuesday, May 24, 2022 9:07:39 AM EDT Michael Payne wrote:
> What is 370°F (190°C) in this article, I get the °C and °F but the  ?

Mojibake. A degree sign is U+B0. In UTF-8, it is encoded as 0xC2 0xB0, where
the top three bits of C2 mean it's the start of a two-byte sequence, the
bottom two bits of C2 are the top two bits of B0, and the top two bits of B0
mean that it's a continuation byte. U+C2 is Â, and U+B0 happens to match the °
sign from before encoding.

Examining the page with a hex editor, I see that the apostrophe in "Kola’s",
which is a right single quotation mark, is encoded as E2 80 99, but the degree
sign is encoded as C3 82 C2 B0. This had to have been copied from a source
where the temperature was displayed as "190°C" because of a wrong encoding,
and pasted into the page.

Pierre
--
sei do'anai mi'a djuno puze'e noroi nalselganse srera



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