Hi All.

Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to
implement the degree sign, (ø) into the message, but had to copy and
paste the geographical location from another source.

In extended ASCII (PC8) I get it by pressing the Right Alt-key while
entering 248 on the numerical keyboard.

In Windows I get it while pressing the left Alt-key and entering 0176 on
the numerical keyboard.

The degree sign is used in positions, both nautical and geographical, as
well as with temperatures and mathematical angles.

Some keyboards do have direct access to the degree sign, some don't.
If there's direct access, the degree sign is also printed on a key, and
usually accessed with the help of an Alt-key.

All Windows code pages don't include the 'long hyphen' sign, but for
example CP1004 (Windows Extended) as well as CP1252 (Latin 1 Windows) do
and it may also be accessed with the key combo Alt 0151 from other
Windows code pages.

None of above information could be found in any Windows Word or Works
manuals, but I had to find it in the IBM OS/2 Warp 4 "Keyboards and Code
Pages" manual.


Have a nice day,

Holger

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Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to
implement the degree sign, (~) into the message, but had to copy and
paste the geographical location from another source.

Just FYI, the degree sign came across as a tilde by the time it got here.

Mike
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20 Nov 16 16:10, you wrote to All:

Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to implement the degree sign, (ø) into the message, but had to copy and
paste the geographical location from another source.

this is why i've taken to using the standard form of

W73d43m33s N35d21m19s
-73d43m33s 35d21m19s

and similar where the 'd' indicates "degrees". 'm' is "minutes" (including decimal minutes) and 's' is "seconds"... it just makes sense when one can't figure out how to create those charcters... we won't even bring up the well known character set and code page conversion mess...

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In a message on Friday 11-23-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mike,

Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to
implement the degree sign, (~) into the message, but had to copy and

Just FYI, the degree sign came across as a tilde by the time it got
here.

Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as the
degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

Dunno, what operating system you use.


Have a good night,

Holger


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In a message on Friday 11-24-16 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mark,

Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to implement the degree sign, (ø) into the message, ....

this is why i've taken to using the standard form of

W73d43m33s N35d21m19s
-73d43m33s 35d21m19s

and similar where the 'd' indicates "degrees". 'm' is "minutes"
(including decimal minutes) and 's' is "seconds"... it just makes
sense when one can't figure out how to create those charcters...

Well, the code for the degree sign is in my spine in OS/2 and DOS,
and now I even remember the code for that sign in Windows.

BTW, the degree sign I entered in OS/2 came back in the quoted text
correctly.


Have a nice day,

Holger


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Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

Dunno, what operating system you use.

OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit, both for DOS.

Mike

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In a message on Wednesday 11-26-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as
the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

If I enter Alt-247, I get the '÷' double tilde, the single '~' I have
available on the scandinavian keyboard, and checking the keyboard maps
of various US keyboards, it seems also to be available on all of them by 'Shift-key left of the 1 key' on the top row of the main keyboard.

I cannot understand why entering the same code on each side of the pond,
gives different characters, unless you use another code page than 437.

Dunno, what operating system you use.

OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit,
both for DOS.

Oh, SLMR is long ago forgotten here. I use, as you can see, the MR/2 QWK reader, and QEdit for OS/2, alternatively The Semware Editor, DOS vers.

As an alternative QWK-package I have MultiMail, also configured to use
QEdit/2.

I really do love the MR/2 QWK package.


Have a good night,

Holger


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