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  • (Score: 1) by unauthorized on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:56AM

    by unauthorized (3776) on Saturday March 15 2014, @05:56AM (#16792)

    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

    by maxwell demon (1608) on Saturday March 15 2014, @03:27PM (#16911)

    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 ℉

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    • (Score: 1) by zsau on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:21AM

      by zsau (2642) on Tuesday March 18 2014, @12:21AM (#17926)

      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.