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#38549 31-Jul-2009 15:00

Bit of a pain typing out 2degrees and there is no reason it should be substituting them with a question mark that I can think of...

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#241009 31-Jul-2009 15:04

2deg?

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#241014 31-Jul-2009 15:21

We remove all those characters because of havoc they cause in RSS feeds. Also the company name is 2 Degrees Mobile anyway...

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#241488 2-Aug-2009 17:29

But the logo is 2^o, so why not imitate that when abbreviating the name? I suppose you're right. We should all stick to 2 Degrees Mobile. :)

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#241894 3-Aug-2009 17:26

bazzer: But the logo is 2^o, so why not imitate that when abbreviating the name? I suppose you're right. We should all stick to 2 Degrees Mobile. :)

Would be confusing if we referred to Vodafone around these forums as ' (meant to be an upside-down apostrophe!)

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#242339 4-Aug-2009 13:15

Not if it were as obvious as 2 Degrees Mobile's logo is. Logos are well recognised, if a decent version of it could be produced in text, how would that be confusing? If the ' that you used looked anything like the Vodafone logo I would've known what you meant.

Does this work? 2o? Not that I necessarily recommend people to use it, but looks like 2 Degrees Mobile to me!

Edit: Or at least it did until I submitted the reply and the HTML tags were stripped...

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#242390 4-Aug-2009 14:54

2o

Hmm, that didn't work, tried a superscript copy from word. Worked in the preview.

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#243931 7-Aug-2009 13:36

Yes, the forum is US ASCII only as far as I can tell. Also means that people who wish to use the "UK Pound" symbol or the Euro symbol cannot do so. Very frustrating.

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#243934 7-Aug-2009 13:41

davide: Yes, the forum is US ASCII only as far as I can tell. Also means that people who wish to use the "UK Pound" symbol or the Euro symbol cannot do so. Very frustrating.

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#244415 9-Aug-2009 12:38

Something's obviously changed since I played this game last... my apologies!

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#244418 9-Aug-2009 12:49

When I last tried it, they didnt work either ? pound ? euro ? degrees

edit - nope - still not working. How are you entering them so that they work?

Perhaps the full editor will be better £ € °

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#244422 9-Aug-2009 12:54

How about " 2° " = 2°

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#244424 9-Aug-2009 13:06

well it seems that if a post is edited you can add them so thats good enough for now I suppose - still no subject tho...

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