Quick Help needed please…
How can I type a degree sign (little o)
Thanx
Hit the “Num lock” key. Hold down the “Alt” key and type 248 on the numeric keypad.
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alt (keep pressed) and then 2 4 8
on the right side of the keyboard
Method 2:
[sup]o[/sup]
Gack. That didn’t work.
[sup]o[/sup]
Assuming Windows in some form:
If ALT + 248 does not work,
then try
ALT + 0176
(Different ASCII codes work differently on various operating systems.)
If the ALT + keys are causing your program to jump around, use the charmap.exe to select, copy, then paste the character.
(Charmap.exe may be located in different places depending on your OS, so use Windows Explorer to search for “charmap” and then right-click the file to create a shortcut on your desktop.)
Depends. What kind of computer are you using, what operating system are you running, what keyboard are you using, and/or what program are you trying to type the symbol in? Answers will vary widely.
For me, it’s AltGr+Shift+0. But then, I am using an International Dvorak keyborad driver on a British keyboard in KDE 3.0 on Linux for Intel, which is probably not the setup you have.
TYVM for your speedy response… But this does not work on my work pc which is running win 95b any ideas?
Cut and paste if from the couple of people that gave you examples right here.
You could superscript a small “o” to approximate a degree symbol.
The code is this…
451[sup]o[/sup]
And it’ll look like this…
451[sup]o[/sup]
I use ALT+0176
You can also use the Windows character map to copy and paste from or to get ALT+ codes.
Thanks all! Problem solved.
ps Q.E.D - shouldn’t your sig. be:-
Quod Erat Demonstrandum – Question Excellently Done!!!
In the interest of completeness, on the Mac its: Option-0 (zero)
See… º
For extra-completeness, on the Mac it can also be shift+option-8.
The advice offered is correct, but this is actually not quite correct.
ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, and it only specifies the coding for the lower 7 bits.
Specifically there is no ‘degree’ sign in the ASCII code.
There are several extensions of this to 8 bits, commonly called ‘8-bit ASCII’, although they’re strictly not part of the ASCII standard.
The most commonly used character codings on the web, and in todays operating systems are ISO-8859-1 (aka latin-1), or it’s successor ISO-8859-15 (aka latin-9) (which also has the Euro symbol). In both these the degree sign is coded as (decimal) 176. In unicode, which is supposed ot resolve all character code problems (and in version 4.0 I think there’s even the elusive Philippine Peso!), the degree sign is also at position (decimal)176.
For angle or temperature?
Of my pet-peeves is when I see (for example) “25°C”. There should be a space between the number and the degree symbol.
The following should work from any computer, and it’s most likely to be readable by others:
°
Provided the OP is trying to insert the degree symbol into a post on this message board or a web page, yes. But this won’t work in something like Microsoft Word.