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timo_w2s

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Anyone else wish the standard keyboard had a degree ° symbol on it? I realise not many people need it but in our hobby it would be quite useful....

On a PC you can get it by holding down the alt key and on the numeric keypad type 0176. When you release the alt key a ° will appear.

PS. Do I win a prize for one of the shortest (and hard to click) thread titles? :D
 
Should confuse the bots that is for sure
 
It's included on a French (AZERTY) keyboard, accessed via ) and shift....sadly I'm not using a French laptop so can't demonstrate...
 
sonnetpete said:
It's included on a French (AZERTY) keyboard, accessed via ) and shift....sadly I'm not using a French laptop so can't demonstrate...
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The few times I've had to use a French keyboard was quite frustrating. Even if it does have a ° I don't think I'll bother changing my UK keyboard for it...
 
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Oh yes.:) If you just type alt 176, the first thing is what you get. :)
 
timo_w2s said:
The few times I've had to use a French keyboard was quite frustrating
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Oh, you should try swapping between it and a UK one fairly regularly....it's annoying with a capital F...
 
iPhone and iPads are easy, just hold down the 0 (zero) and a ° option will pop up.
 
Yep, I use the alt key and numeric keypad for some of the Spanish Accents.
I have before now used the copy and paste for degree symbol. Nice tool ;)
 
timo_w2s said:
On a PC you can get it by holding down the alt key and on the numeric keypad type 0176.
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I've always used the alt key and 248 °° Nope, no difference, same result.
 
satelliteman said:
Yep, I use the alt key and numeric keypad for some of the Spanish Accents.
I have before now used the copy and paste for degree symbol. Nice tool ;)
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I sometimes just copy and paste too, usually after a quick google of the word degree.

sonnetpete said:
Oh, you should try swapping between it and a UK one fairly regularly....it's annoying with a capital F...
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Luckily I use the Scandinavian keyboard more often and that's reasonably similar to the UK version (just a few of the symbols are moved about) so I can remember the layout.
 
aceb said:
I've always used the alt key and 248 °° Nope, no difference, same result.
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I saw that mentioned on a few pages but I couldn't get it to work (it's not easy on my keyboard as it has no proper numeric keypad so I need about 4 fingers to type this silly symbol).

This is what I get with alt-248: ◘
Maybe it doesn't work in Firefox?
 
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