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

[Michael Barton]

Perhaps the only thing to do with some consistency is to write as

180 45' 30"

leaving the degree symbol implied. I don't know if that is very satisfactory
or not. Would it be confusing?

Michael

On 8/25/07 1:11 PM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> 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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