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On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Greg R.  wrote:
> I'm wondering if everyone on the list can see the special character for the
> degree symbol

The character varies its position in different character sets: on Mac
OS 9 and X it is decimal 161, while on Windows it is decimal 176, and
in MS-DOS it is decimal 248.  It these differences are uncorrected
then it could show up as lots of other characters.

The reason that most people can see it in email is due to HTML mail.
We can each type in the � character however we want and under the hood
in the HTML it becomes ° (I wonder if you will see ampersand deg;
or if you will see a degree symbol when it is posted?)  Our web
browsers then translate the HTML sequence back into a � properly when
we read the emails using HTML mail.

Another good "common-denominator" approach is to write things with one
letter abbreviations like this:

N 39d 59m 50s
W 111d 45m 27s

Dan

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