On Monday, June 26, 2017 at 11:59:48 AM UTC-4, notbob wrote:
> On 2017-06-26, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
> > Oops! Should have been a degree symbol. Otherwise, we'd be toast.
> > It's still 113° F. at 7:45 PM.
>
> Which is 45.55° C, at 1945 hrs.
>
> If you can't see the degree symbol, you have a crappy
> newsreader/editor, as it is one of the simplest ascii characters
> available.
>
> nb

Because newsreaders don't deal with extended character sets uniformly,
I just omit it. 116 F is understandable in context, and the degree
sign is nonstandard usage with Celsius.

Cindy Hamilton