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Let me just leave a Unicode ‘degree’ symbol here for anyone who needs one: ° (on iOS and possibly MacOS you can get one of these by pressing and holding ‘zero

Let me just leave a Unicode ‘degree’ symbol here for anyone who needs one: ° (on iOS and possibly MacOS you can get one of these by pressing and holding ‘zero’ until the alternate characters appear)

Sharlin 4y ago
On macOS's US and US International layouts it's alt+0 – on many European layouts it's shift + the button below esc (eg. §).
- anamexis 4y ago
  On the US layout, alt+0 gives me º (U+00BA : MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR). To get the degree sign, it's alt+shift+8 for ° (U+00B0 : DEGREE SIGN)
  - Sharlin 4y ago
    Oh, wow, my bad. Got confused by the similarity.
tialaramex 4y ago
This is a technical forum, you can just write K. The degrees Celsius are deliberately the same size as the Kelvin unit, but you don't need (and shouldn't write) degrees for an absolute system. We're fucked because 1.5K was already a lot, and there's still barely enough political will to avoid 3K. It is going to get bad.
- mellosouls 4y ago
  Nobody's gonna believe 1.5 thousand, and plenty would read it that way. Nobody outside some science niches (technical or not) uses K for temperature.
  - SnowHill9902 4y ago
    The correct format is 1.5 K and in my opinion is unambiguous written that way. 1.5k is definitely 1,500 while 1.5K in the middle is ambiguous and depends on context.
    - alexvoda 4y ago
      Then 1.5Ki should be 1536.
vlod 4y ago
If you're curious on how to do this on linux: <ctrl>-<shift>-u then enter unicode char: 00B0 and then press <enter> list of unicode codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Latin-1_Supplement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Lat...
- checkyoursudo 4y ago
  This must be desktop-environment dependent? I have to do <compose key> <0> <*> for °. (That 0 is a zero.)
  - vlod 4y ago
    Oh.. never thought about that. My approach was on Pop_OS.
  - marcosdumay 4y ago
    It's keyboard dependent, but the same for all DEs. On mine it's copose-/.
Faaak 4y ago
Alternatively, we can also use Kelvins as it shares the same scale as degrees Celsius; however the Kelvin notation doesn't use the degree symbol: 2.5K

Sharlin 4y ago

On macOS's US and US International layouts it's alt+0 – on many European layouts it's shift + the button below esc (eg. §).

anamexis 4y ago
On the US layout, alt+0 gives me º (U+00BA : MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR). To get the degree sign, it's alt+shift+8 for ° (U+00B0 : DEGREE SIGN)
- Sharlin 4y ago
  Oh, wow, my bad. Got confused by the similarity.

tialaramex 4y ago

This is a technical forum, you can just write K. The degrees Celsius are deliberately the same size as the Kelvin unit, but you don't need (and shouldn't write) degrees for an absolute system. We're fucked because 1.5K was already a lot, and there's still barely enough political will to avoid 3K. It is going to get bad.

mellosouls 4y ago
Nobody's gonna believe 1.5 thousand, and plenty would read it that way. Nobody outside some science niches (technical or not) uses K for temperature.
- SnowHill9902 4y ago
  The correct format is 1.5 K and in my opinion is unambiguous written that way. 1.5k is definitely 1,500 while 1.5K in the middle is ambiguous and depends on context.
  - alexvoda 4y ago
    Then 1.5Ki should be 1536.

vlod 4y ago

If you're curious on how to do this on linux: <ctrl>-<shift>-u then enter unicode char: 00B0 and then press <enter> list of unicode codes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Latin-1_Supplement https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unicode_characters#Lat...

checkyoursudo 4y ago
This must be desktop-environment dependent? I have to do <compose key> <0> <*> for °. (That 0 is a zero.)
- vlod 4y ago
  Oh.. never thought about that. My approach was on Pop_OS.
- marcosdumay 4y ago
  It's keyboard dependent, but the same for all DEs. On mine it's copose-/.

Faaak 4y ago

Alternatively, we can also use Kelvins as it shares the same scale as degrees Celsius; however the Kelvin notation doesn't use the degree symbol: 2.5K