"8" not "."
"8" be "°"
ETA I didn't notice that Fly320s had pointed this out previously. Thanks, Fly320s.
Rather than cramming unicodes into posts, e-mails, etc, I put a bunch of these symbols into a text file so I could just paste and copy. I have a desktop shortcut to this file. Here's a sample:
SPECIAL OFT-USED SYMBOLS
degree °
micro µ
obelus ÷
slashed zero Ø
umlauts Ü, or ü
Ö, or ö,
pilcrow ( ¶ )
section sign ( § )
Simple, easy, works the proverbial "99%" of the time.
It was a revelation to me to discover that -40°C = -40°F back in high school and that for higher temperatures pretty much 9 ÷ 5 was equal to 1-1/2 and 5 ÷ 9 was equal to 1/2 for a rough conversion back and forth between the two scales. While 5000°F is not really 2500°C it gives you a picture of where you are between the scales with what, an 11% error?
Meh, what's an 11% error between friends? And at those temperatures, 32 degrees plus or minus is trivial.
Oh, and I got called out once for using "degrees Kelvin" ("°K") for the absolute scale of temperature. Oopsie !
Nap time.
Terry