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    From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to Holger Granholm on Thursday, November 24, 2016 12:07:22
    20 Nov 16 16:10, you wrote to All:

    Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to implement the degree sign, (°) into the message, but had to copy and
    paste the geographical location from another source.

    this is why i've taken to using the standard form of

    W73d43m33s N35d21m19s
    -73d43m33s 35d21m19s

    and similar where the 'd' indicates "degrees". 'm' is "minutes" (including decimal minutes) and 's' is "seconds"... it just makes sense when one can't figure out how to create those charcters... we won't even bring up the well known character set and code page conversion mess...

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  • From Holger Granholm@2:20/228 to Mike Powell on Friday, November 25, 2016 09:24:00
    In a message on Friday 11-23-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:

    Hi Mike,

    Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to
    implement the degree sign, (~) into the message, but had to copy and

    Just FYI, the degree sign came across as a tilde by the time it got
    here.

    Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as the
    degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

    Dunno, what operating system you use.


    Have a good night,

    Holger


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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Holger Granholm on Saturday, November 26, 2016 19:43:00
    Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

    Dunno, what operating system you use.

    OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit, both for DOS.

    Mike

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  • From Holger Granholm@2:20/228 to Mark Lewis on Friday, November 25, 2016 09:24:00
    In a message on Friday 11-24-16 mark lewis said to Holger Granholm:

    Hi Mark,

    Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to implement the degree sign, (°) into the message, ....

    this is why i've taken to using the standard form of

    W73d43m33s N35d21m19s
    -73d43m33s 35d21m19s

    and similar where the 'd' indicates "degrees". 'm' is "minutes"
    (including decimal minutes) and 's' is "seconds"... it just makes
    sense when one can't figure out how to create those charcters...

    Well, the code for the degree sign is in my spine in OS/2 and DOS,
    and now I even remember the code for that sign in Windows.

    BTW, the degree sign I entered in OS/2 came back in the quoted text
    correctly.


    Have a nice day,

    Holger


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  • From Holger Granholm@2:20/228 to Mike Powell on Wednesday, November 30, 2016 09:33:00
    In a message on Wednesday 11-26-16 Mike Powell said to Holger Granholm:

    Hi Mike,

    Thanks for the info. I entered it with CP437 in OS/2, and saw it as
    the degree sign. Incidentally, OS/2 handles code pages as DOS does.

    If I enter Alt-247, I get the '≈' double tilde, the single '~' I have
    available on the scandinavian keyboard, and checking the keyboard maps
    of various US keyboards, it seems also to be available on all of them by 'Shift-key left of the 1 key' on the top row of the main keyboard.

    I cannot understand why entering the same code on each side of the pond,
    gives different characters, unless you use another code page than 437.

    Dunno, what operating system you use.

    OS/2 also, although I am viewing the message in SLMR and Q-Edit,
    both for DOS.

    Oh, SLMR is long ago forgotten here. I use, as you can see, the MR/2 QWK reader, and QEdit for OS/2, alternatively The Semware Editor, DOS vers.

    As an alternative QWK-package I have MultiMail, also configured to use
    QEdit/2.

    I really do love the MR/2 QWK package.


    Have a good night,

    Holger


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