Except that you shouldn't use the full unit symbols for temperatures; they're "compatibility characters" and exist only to support round-tripping with certain CJK encodings (that is to say, so you can convert a text from EUC-JP to Unicode and back to EUC-JP, and have the same text). When composing a text in Unicode which is not required to be compatible with a specific text encoded in a different character set, you should always use the two separate symbols.
(Score: 1) by unauthorized on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:56AM
Well, you could do it, but only on sites which actually support UTF-8.
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:27PM
Of course you can always do it as HTML entity: ˚ gives ˚
Of course if you use Unicode anyway, you can also use the full unit symbol for temperatures: ℃ gives ℃ and ℉ gives ℉
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1) by zsau on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:21AM
Except that you shouldn't use the full unit symbols for temperatures; they're "compatibility characters" and exist only to support round-tripping with certain CJK encodings (that is to say, so you can convert a text from EUC-JP to Unicode and back to EUC-JP, and have the same text). When composing a text in Unicode which is not required to be compatible with a specific text encoded in a different character set, you should always use the two separate symbols.