From: John Wilcock (john@tradoc.fr)
Date: Fri Apr 01 2005 - 07:13:51 CST
Johannes Bergerhausen wrote:
> Am 01.04.2005 um 13:53 schrieb John Wilcock:
>
>> Even today the degree sign is on French PC keyboards, the masculine
>> ordinal is not.
>
>
> On PC, the Masculine Ordinal should be at ALT GR 0186 (source: FontBook,
> Berlin)
Of course. However the degree sign is directly accessible as Shift-) on
a French keyboard, which makes it far more likely to be used than an ALT
combination.
>
>> I see N° quite literally every day in documents we receive for
>> translation, never Nº or №.
>
>
> Even if we see something every day this will not mean that it is correct.
I agree entirely; I was just commenting on actual usage.
John.
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