Re: Degree Symbol Display

Bob Showalter
Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:52:50 -0000

On 9/11/07, Nick <nhinze-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> I''m trying to display the degree symbol (the one used for
temperature
> or latitude/longitude coordinates).
>
>
> I tried to use 167.chr , but the output on the website is
''?''.

I don''t know where you got 167 from (perhaps you meant 176?). By
default, Rails output is UTF-8. The Unicode code point for the degree
sign is 0x00B0, which is the UTF-8 sequence:

   "\xC2\xB0"

As mentioned, you can also use the HTML entity &deg;