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It's the default on my keyboard, and the commonly accepted symbol in my language. Next time, I'll choose something else.
by rscho 4y ago
It's the default on my keyboard, and the commonly accepted symbol in my language. Next time, I'll choose something else.
- chrismorgan 4y agoI was not familiar with keyboard layouts including DEGREE SIGN handily, so I though there was at least a decent chance you had deliberately gone fancy. (I double-checked that it was ° and not º U+00BA MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, which I would expect to see on some keyboards, and “Nº” is incidentally distinctly better than “N°”, since it’s the shape of an o rather than a circle.) To the best of my knowledge, I have never come across “n°” before. “№” plenty, “#” plenty, “No. ” plenty, “no. ” a few times, but not “n°” with a lowercase n. Looking through <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numero_sign#Usages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numero_sign#Usages>… hmm, French AZERTY? I see now that it does have ° readily accessible. I think another aspect that made it harder for me to recognise immediately was the lack of a full stop; I’d probably have recognised “n° 1” a bit faster. (I’d write “№ 1” rather than “№1”, though personally I’d go fancy with NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE, but that’s ’cos I enjoy doing crazy things like that.) P.S. I live in Australia. Similar Anglocentrism to the USA in language, though less pronounced in matters of culture.