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From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: how to get \circ symbol in odt export?
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 15:40:26 +0000
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Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I usually export to PDF via LaTeX.  One of the symbols I use a lot is
> the degree symbol (as in degrees C) and typically do this with a
> latex-ism:
>
>   ^{\circ}C
>
> This doesn't export well to ODT.  Can anybody suggest what I can use
> that would?  Using "^{o}C" works but doesn't look very nice (lower case
> o is not a circle, more of an oval).
>
> Not a critical issue but I *am* curious!
>
> Thanks,
> eric

I've answered my own question: simply resort to UTF characters!
Replacing ^{\circ} with the DEGREE SIGN unicode character (=C2=B0) does the
trick for both latex/pdf and odt exports!  *And* looks good in the org
buffer as well.

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