Why no degree symbol on keyboards?
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Not on QWERTY keyboards
Pretty sure there is and if not, "charmap" has existed in Windows for decades. Problem with remapping keys is trying to remember what key or key combination does what now.
Labelmaker to the rescue! Well worth having one on the desk.
All those extra symbols ` | ^ are you mention are used by computer programmers……
I google odd symbols and then copy and paste them.
All those extra symbols ` | ^ are you mention are used by computer programmers.
Cleaning for sure. There has to be stuff living in there.
I've got <>^ but no down pointing character. What's
I keep a link to this site on my desktop. Very handy.
sites.psu.edu
ALT Codes for Windows
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No room on the keyboard for something that isn't that important. Those symbols are used in the IT world, as well as the function keys at the top.
^ is a caret in mathematics.
That's just the letter V
^ is a caret in mathematics.
Strange. German Keyboards allways have it. °°°°°°°
Problem solved for those who have that issue. I don't.
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Well, let me tell you something - just realized when I put the Tahoe on Tow/Haul - the voltage gauge flips to transmission temp - took an 8 mile trip and it stayed @/below 180° F < Check it out 😷
Alternatively, start reporting all temperatures in Kelvin, where the use of the degree symbol is incorrect.
I'm sitting here now with it a chilly 270K.
I'm sitting here now with it a chilly 270K.
I just put an F or C after the number for temperature but in certain situations I'll use an apostrophe like " turn 45' to your left".
- The degree symbol isn't part of ASCII, so it's not on the keyboard. Keyboards only did ASCII in the earlier years.
- When it became part of the upper-128 alphabet on the PC, laser printers took font cartridges, costing about $100 a pop.
Not many could afford multiple cartridges. You needed a math cartridge back then, so only one dept. even considered buying that cartridge.
You also needed a PC. If you took the document to another PC and printed w/o the math cartridge, you'd get something that didn't look like a degree symbol. Or, nothing.
- The guys really needing to author math used TeX; later LATeX, which is a meta language that typesets math symbols. It would take a lot of work to learn TeX just to get a degree symbol to print. They used mainframes. To get it, you'd have in your document: \usepackage{gensymb}
It just got left out. Too much work to look up. Too expensive to print out. Too much labor to use a typesetting language. People either just didn't use it, used an asterik in its place, or left a blank space and wrote it in using a pen after the print.
By the time everyone accepted workarounds, Macs and postscript (both expensive) laser printers came about, and people in that camp would print degree symbols. In fact, they spent a lot of time printing all sorts of fancy things that PCs couldn't.
It was probably another decade or more before the price came down enough that most people had the capability to print the degree symbol.
Windows and WYSWIG word processors on everyone's desks, and the CPU did image processing to postscript, but postscript was never popular in the PC world.
- When it became part of the upper-128 alphabet on the PC, laser printers took font cartridges, costing about $100 a pop.
Not many could afford multiple cartridges. You needed a math cartridge back then, so only one dept. even considered buying that cartridge.
You also needed a PC. If you took the document to another PC and printed w/o the math cartridge, you'd get something that didn't look like a degree symbol. Or, nothing.
- The guys really needing to author math used TeX; later LATeX, which is a meta language that typesets math symbols. It would take a lot of work to learn TeX just to get a degree symbol to print. They used mainframes. To get it, you'd have in your document: \usepackage{gensymb}
It just got left out. Too much work to look up. Too expensive to print out. Too much labor to use a typesetting language. People either just didn't use it, used an asterik in its place, or left a blank space and wrote it in using a pen after the print.
By the time everyone accepted workarounds, Macs and postscript (both expensive) laser printers came about, and people in that camp would print degree symbols. In fact, they spent a lot of time printing all sorts of fancy things that PCs couldn't.
It was probably another decade or more before the price came down enough that most people had the capability to print the degree symbol.
Windows and WYSWIG word processors on everyone's desks, and the CPU did image processing to postscript, but postscript was never popular in the PC world.
On non us keyboard layout is totally different.
I smash altgr and keys to find randomly what I need.
Or...windows-run- charmap.exe
I smash altgr and keys to find randomly what I need.
Or...windows-run- charmap.exe
Yep, or you can copy it from the character map. I keep a list of those Alt+ __ symbol codes handy because I can't remember all the useful ones.
