Quite a few of those symbols look like squares on both my PC and my phone. I
regard the non ascii characters as unreliable, so I type out "degrees" or just
"d".
Peter Shute
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> To: Moorhead Family
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> Subject: Re: [Birding-Aus] Decimal Vs Sexagesimal Notation
> for GeographicalLocation
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> Most can find Character Map or Character Viewer on PC/ or
> MAC for the ˚ and then explore for countless other symbols, etc.
>
>
> Try this goody for birders ✔
>
> or ♀ and ♂ are useful and grossly underused. So much so that
> some sites don't even accept them (!!!!!)
>
> if you have lousy views you could use ½ a ✔ or a ✖ as it was
> too ± ℃ depending on where you are and if overseas, any of à
> á ä ç ô ö Â ë or £ and € could be useful...
>
> and finish with the old favourite ⎈
>
> whatever that means!
>
> Alan
>
> PS some of these symbols may not display on your machine or
> may scramble: e-mail for original note ;-)
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> On 11/05/2010, at 13:29 , Moorhead Family wrote:
>
> Hi Simon and others,
> The symbol for degrees can be accessed on most keyboards by
> pressing SHIFT ALT 248...using the 248 either on the RHS of
> most keyboards or the secondary number keys under the letters
> in a laptop (if you know what I mean!).....
> You then get 35°
> Cheers,
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