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atordo · 08-07-2012, 04:23 AM

Fast as ever, Kovid

BTW, I was mistaken at the OP. The problem only happened with the ordinal symbol, degrees were OK. I was mislead by an article with many temperature forecasts which was using the ordinal symbol instead of degrees. This is a common mistake in Spanish media as the default keyboard has the ordinal but not degree, so I guess it's easier to type. And they're virtually indistinguishable in most fonts. In handwritten form I've always seen the "o" underscored, but don't know why most fonts omit this.

08-07-2012, 04:23 AM	#3
atordo Connoisseur Posts: 89 Karma: 19669 Join Date: Apr 2012 Device: Kindle Touch	Fast as ever, Kovid BTW, I was mistaken at the OP. The problem only happened with the ordinal symbol, degrees were OK. I was mislead by an article with many temperature forecasts which was using the ordinal symbol instead of degrees. This is a common mistake in Spanish media as the default keyboard has the ordinal but not degree, so I guess it's easier to type. And they're virtually indistinguishable in most fonts. In handwritten form I've always seen the "o" underscored, but don't know why most fonts omit this.