Comments on: How to type Degree Temperature Symbol in Mac OS X

By: James

James — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:09:46 +0000

On a PC, ‘charmap’ is a utility that shows the mappings for an given font, the reference being arial for double-byte fonts.

hold alt + 0176 on the keypad and you get character 176, which is a degree symbol.

Mac OSX has a character pallette – cmd+opt+T, but it’s light on the keystroke details you need for a given character. You can copy characters, though.

By: isomorphismes

isomorphismes — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:42:48 +0000

oops. It will render as & deg ; = °.

By: isomorphismes

isomorphismes — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 19:42:24 +0000

Characters in Unicode do have a meaning and whilst they may render similarly on your screen another person may perceive them differently.

Look at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Special-Characters-Mac.png

which makes it clear that °ª are made to be seen as a pair. They are used in Spanish where instead of 3rd (“third”) one says 3ª (“tercera”) and instead of 1st one says 1° (“primero”).

You can also tell if you’ve used the correct degree symbol because HTML will render it as °.

By: Karin

Karin — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:41:12 +0000

Very helpful. Not all sites that try to solve this problem actually provide the correct solution for Mac OS X. Thanks!

By: megaRa24

megaRa24 — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:12:57 +0000

YEAH, good point, I want a list as well…
but as no-one posted it after 18 months there probably is no list like that… 8(

By: How to type degree symbol (OSX) : ARJ

How to type degree symbol (OSX) : ARJ — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:45:34 +0000

[...] looking for solutions on how to type the degree symbol (like in 0°) on OSX, but could only find solutions for English keyboard layout (or solutions suggesting copying an image…). After some trial and [...]

By: michael

michael — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:33:38 +0000

it might be slightly off-topic, but is there a shortcut for the “square” symbol too? til now I had a workaround to the job for me (quicksilver, copy-paste the character).. if you need m², cm², x² … a lot a “native” osx key-combo would be fine (for 3 as well?).

thanks in advance.

michael

By: Pascal (Former  IS&T France)

Pascal (Former  IS&T France) — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 09:02:38 +0000

One could also use system preferences/international/input menu/”show input menu” checked.
after that, you will see a new icon on the menu bar (top right side of the screen), which allows you to type many special characters depending on your country, keyboard etc
regards
Pascal

By: Tony

Tony — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:52:11 +0000

And there’s always Edit->Special Characters (⌥⌘T) and Search for degree:

°
℃
℉

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:35:02 +0000

Title’s wrong again. Should be: “How to type Degree Temperature Symbol on a US qwerty keyboard”

By: ChillyWilly

ChillyWilly — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:43:52 +0000

º˚øØ°• lots of weird symbols, lol, i dont know what any of these are! temperatures? are they farhenheit vs celcius vs kelvin temperature? why so many symbols?

the funny thing is on a PC in windows i dont have ANY idea how to make ANY symbols! so much easier on a mac, everything is.

By: erik

erik — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:57:01 +0000

I prefer option+0 (zero) = º like in 5ºC

By: Cintra

Cintra — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:28:53 +0000

On a Norwegian keyboard the following apply:
2° = option shift q
5˚ = option shift å
0º = option shift k

mvh

By: Sepp

Sepp — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:31:22 +0000

Isn’t there a list of most special characters for each keyboard layout somewhere at apple.com?

By: thg

thg — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 14:08:59 +0000

These are really not the same.

Option + Shift + 8 is Degree
Option + k is (spacing) Ring Above diacritic
Option + 0 is the the Masculine Ordinal Indicator (has a line under it in some fonts)