Best way to encode Degree Celsius symbol into web page?

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Evanss picture Evanss · May 29, 2012 · Viewed 134.8k times · Source

How should I encode special characters into web pages? For instance I need this symbol ℃, which I used just by copying and pasting the character as I can see it now. This worked for the desktop browsers I checked with and also on iPad and iPhone but nothing is displayed on a Blackberry I used for testing. Is there a standard best practice for this?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2103/browsertest.htm

Answer

Nix picture Nix · May 29, 2012

Try to replace it with °, and also to set the charset to utf-8, as Martin suggests.

°C will get you something like this:

Degrees Celsius

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