I'm trying to put in an email the temperature outside in degrees. On my Mac, the degree symbol (°
) is Option+Shift+8. But I'm writing the email in Thunderbird on an Ubuntu 10.10 with the default US English keyboard layout. What key combination do I use to get the degree symbol under X11?
EDIT: Gert successfully answered the question… but, bonus points for any easier to use keystroke than what's in his answer!
Best Answer
Set up a Compose key. On Ubuntu, this is easily done in the keyboard preferences, “Layout” tab, “Options” subdialog. Caps Lock is a good choice as it's pretty much useless (all remotely serious editors have a command to make the selection uppercase for the rare times it's needed).
Press Compose followed by two characters (occasionally three) to enter a character you don't have on your keyboard. Usually the resulting character combines the two characters you type, for example Compose ' a enters
á
and Compose s s entersß
. The degree symbol°
is one of the less memorable combinations, it's on Compose o o.