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|    mark lewis to Holger Granholm    |
|    Degree sign    |
|    24 Nov 16 12:07:22    |
      20 Nov 16 16:10, you wrote to All:               HG> Recently I received an e-mail from a friend, who didn't know how to        HG> implement the degree sign, (ø) into the message, but had to copy and        HG> 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...              )\/(ark              Always Mount a Scratch Monkey       Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it       wrong...       ... SC also brought us mustard sauce on pig.       ---        * Origin: (1:3634/12.73)    |
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