Encoding
Unicode characters similar in appearance include:
- U+00B0 ° degree sign (HTML:
°°) - U+00BA º masculine ordinal indicator (HTML:
ºº) - U+02DA ˚ modifier letter ring above (HTML:
˚) (standalone)- U+030A ◌̊ ring above (HTML:
̊) (applied to a letter) - U+0325 ◌̥ ring below (HTML:
̥) (applied to a letter)
- U+030A ◌̊ ring above (HTML:
- U+2070 ⁰ superscript zero (HTML:
⁰) - U+2218 ∘ ring operator (HTML:
∘)
There are additional code points for U+2103 ℃ degree celsius (HTML: ℃) and U+2109 ℉ degree fahrenheit (HTML: ℉).
The degree character was missing from the basic 7-bit ASCII set of 1963, but was introduced in the 1987 Latin-1 extension. The code point in CP437 etc. is 0xF8 (248 decimal).
Read more about this topic: Degree Symbol