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How do find a degree sign on a computer?
Carol
If you're using a Windows PC, you can generate a lot of characters as follows:
Step 1: Hold down the ALT key;
Step 2: Whilst holding down the ALT key, type a number on the keyboard's numeric keypad. NOTE: this ONLY works for keyboards with a numeric keypad, though most modern keyboards have one.
Step 3: Having typed the number, let go of the ALT key, and a character should appear.
For example, ALT-248 produces the degree sign, thus: °
ALT-0198 produces the ½ fraction.
ALT-0215 produces a multiplication sign: ×
ALT-0247 produces a division sign: ÷
In addition, if you're typing text that's going to end up on a bulletin board, and your bulletin board supports the use of what are called "HTML entities", then you can insert any Unicode character you like into your post, though I'm not sure that the LexiGame board supports this. An HTML entity consists of the following character sequence:
[1] The "&" symbol;
[2] Either of:
[2a] A string of digits for the Unicode number associated with the character you want, preceded by a "#";
or:
[2b] A character name from the official W3C list of names (such as "eacute" to produce the small letter "e" with an acute accent, é);
[3] The ";" character (semicolon).
Sample HTML entities look like this:
π
π
Both of the above entities in the boxed example produce the Greek letter pi.
You'll know if the LexiGame board supports these, if this:
π
appears as the letter pi in my post. If not, and it appears as in the boxed example, then the board doesn't support HTML entities. Though it would be relatively easy to enable this, and I could provide Alan with some quick JavaScript to facilitate this if he wants.