Degree sign on a lap top-how?

[hotspur]

Was told hold Alt key down and type 2 4 8 keys-friend gets it to work,but not so on my Lenovo.

Thought there would be plenty of helpful pointers on a science site,so thought I'd ask here. Thanks

[StuTodd]

On a PC, hold down the Alt key and on the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard, type 0176, or Alt+ 248.

When you release the Alt Key, a ° should be there. °° yeah, works fine...°°

Stu

[Nikolas]

35º
Hold the alt key then 0
Works on here

[Nikolas]

Mine is a mac

[raymo]

Mine's really interesting; if I do alt 0176 the number that I have entered
disappears. If I do the 35o I get a circumflex instead of the degree sign,
and if do the alt 248 I get a right angle which looks like a small upper
case letter L.????
raymo

[RickS]

Just web surf to a page with a degree sign, copy & paste ;)

[GeoffW1]

That's cheating :rofl:

[Kunama]

For anyone on iPad just hold down the zero key till option pops up and then simply slide to the option you want.......

iMac ...... Option U then zero

[CJ]

Isn't it font dependent? The character map used to be easily accessible. God knows where it is nowadays! (yes, I'm a grumpy old git fed up with things being "fixed")

[janoskiss]

Or you could save yourself the trouble and simply type deg or degree. As long as people understand what you mean, that's all that matters.

[pixelsaurus]

On Win 10 go to Start, All Programs, Windows Accessories and then Character Map.

[RAJAH235]

Just a quick FWIW...
If you're running Firefox, there's an extension called "abcTajpu" that contains a heap of "optional" characters, including the "º" character.

[Atmos]

Another way on a Mac is to push Control, Command and Space. This brings up a menu with a LOT of stuff to choose from §(looks awesome) ⦿(refers to Solar Mass in astrophysics)

[Allan_L]

Thanks Stu.
(Good question Chris)
I have been wondering about that for some time now myself. :thumbsup:
151°
w°°h°°
[Medion all-in-one PC running Windows 10]

[astroron]

This may be of interest?
I use it all the time.
Cheers

[PCH]

Awesome Ron, thanks for sharing!

[AG Hybrid]

Download cputemp and have an icon in your task bar telling you the temp all the time?

Nah.

[N1]

Ron, excellent post!

[sheeny]

I use the Alt codes all the time. A couple more that aren't on Ron's chart:

Alt 0181 µ (micro)
Alt 0248 ø (diameter)

Al.

[Kunama]

Ī fìńd áłł thęßê ödd çhãràčtérš rāthėr ãñńøÿíńg tó łôćætē õń mÿ ìPäd!

[PCH]

Better Finnish using it then, løl

[Nikolas]

¡™£¢∞§¶•ªº–≠πøˆ¨¥†®´∑œåß∂ƒ©˙∆˚¬…æ÷≥ ≤µ˜∫√ç≈Ω

[Nikolas]

mac seems a lot easier as it's just alt and one key eg alt 2 is the trdemark
™

[StuTodd]

Ask a simple question....

:zzz2:

[janoskiss]

Try these:
°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°°° °°°°°°

If you run out PM me and I'll send you some more, free of charge. ;)

[gary]

Plus the ever useful Icelandic Thorn character -

Alt 0222 Þ (Icelandic Thorn)

Originally from the Old English and Old Norse alphabets but now only used in the Icelandic alÞhabet.

Just the thing if you need to communicate with someone ... from Iceland.

According to WikiÞedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorn_(letter)), "it is pronounced as a laminal voiceless alveolar non-sibilant fricative". :thumbsup:

[sheeny]

Thanks Gary. That helps a lot!

Was that last bit in English or Icelandic?:rolleyes::rofl:

Al.

[Atmos]

That takes patience ;)

✁+✃=✂︎

⌄+a=⎀

So much fun can be had :P

[Menno]

If you run Windows and Word:
go to the "Insert" tab
select "Symbol" on the utmost right (unless you have rearranged the bar)
select "More Symbols" at the bottom of the drop-down.
in the pop-up select the font you are using.
scroll down until you find the appropriate special character
highlight the character
click "Insert" at the bottom of the box
Bingo.....
from then; just copy and paste the special character as needed...
When done with the text, copy and paste the entire text into the application you use.
Hope this helpsº as it did just nowº
I use this all the time because I need the Umlaut (Ä) characters for Europe ever so often.
Best regards
Menno

[skysurfer]

I have never understood that there is no standardized way to enter these characters.
On touchscreens it is already way better: holding e.g. the 'a' allows entering áâäà with a small popup. Why not on a computer keyboard ?

The Alt-xxx method is cumbersome: one has to remember all these codes and reminds of the MS-DOS era which is not of this age anymore.

Anyway, on the Mac is is easier than under Windows: degree = <option>-zero and umlaut = <option>-U + <char to be umlauted>. Under Windows this is very stupid: the " key is abused as a 'dead' key to umlaut a character, so using the " itself requires an extra space.

Another issue is that some websites refuse to use the UTF-8 standard which results in small diamonds or question marks when such accented / umlauted characters are displayed.

[blindman]

option + 0 = º on real computer i.e. Apple :-)