[GRASS-dev] Re: [GRASS-user] GRASS6.3 on Windows

[Glynn Clements]

Hamish wrote:

> There remains an unanswered question if "\xB0" produces a degree symbol on all
> platforms.
> 
> test:
> $ echo puts "90\xB0" | wish

\xB0 is a degree symbol in ISO-8859-1. If you're using another
encoding (e.g. UTF-8), you need to use something else. Some encodings
(e.g. ISO-8859-5 = Cyrillic) don't have a degree symbol.

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Glynn Clements <glynn at gclements.plus.com>