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[timo_w2s]

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?

 

[skomedal]

Nice find

Regards

 

[Topper]

Should confuse the bots that is for sure

 

[sonnetpete]

It's included on a French (AZERTY) keyboard, accessed via ) and shift....sadly I'm not using a French laptop so can't demonstrate...

 

[timo_w2s]

It's included on a French (AZERTY) keyboard, accessed via ) and shift....sadly I'm not using a French laptop so can't demonstrate...

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...

 

[rolfw]

░ °

Oh yes. If you just type alt 176, the first thing is what you get.

 

[Captain Jack]

And what about the Mac?

 

[timo_w2s]

And what about the Mac?

Try Option+Shift+8

 

[Captain Jack]

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[sonnetpete]

The few times I've had to use a French keyboard was quite frustrating

Oh, you should try swapping between it and a UK one fairly regularly....it's annoying with a capital F...

 

[timo_w2s]

iPhone and iPads are easy, just hold down the 0 (zero) and a ° option will pop up.

 

[Lazarus]

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Sheila Ferguson on speed?

 

[satelliteman]

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 ;)

 

[aceb]

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

I've always used the alt key and 248 °° Nope, no difference, same result.

 

[timo_w2s]

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 ;)

I sometimes just copy and paste too, usually after a quick google of the word degree.

Oh, you should try swapping between it and a UK one fairly regularly....it's annoying with a capital F...

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.

 

[Lazarus]

I've always used the alt key and 248 °° Nope, no difference, same result.

Maybe yours is Celsius and the other is Kelvin?

 

[timo_w2s]

I've always used the alt key and 248 °° Nope, no difference, same result.

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?

 

[timo_w2s]

iPhone and iPads are easy, just hold down the 0 (zero) and a ° option will pop up.

Just discovered this works with Windows Phone 8.1 as well.

 

[Archive-8]

Nice find :-). °

 

[Anonymous_1]

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