Testing the above "104 degrees" example in Firefox just now, I get: Last year MIT handed out 104° to wombats Pasting back into Emacs, "M-x describe-char" sa

Testing the above "104 degrees" example in Firefox just now, I get: Last year MIT handed out 104° to wombats Pasting back into Emacs, "M-x describe-char" says: code point in charset: 0xB0 ... file code: #xC2 #xB0 (encoded by coding system utf-8-unix) ... name: DEGREE SIGN