Well, here I try to build a string with the degree symbol in it in my
ruby helper function. And the results is not as expected.

Thanks,

On Sep 10, 8:56 pm, Gene Tani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sep 10, 5:35 pm, Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Dear all,
>
> > I'm trying to display the degree symbol (the one used for temperature
> > or latitude/longitude coordinates).
>
> > I tried to use 167.chr , but the output on the website is '?'.
>
> > Code:    degrees = [number_with_precision(degrees, precision=0),
> > 167.chr, " ", number_with_precision(minutes, precision=0), "' ",
> > number_with_precision(decimal_seconds, precision=2), '"']
>
> > HTML Output: 37? 32' 55.51"
>
> > Any ideas ?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp
>
> BTW,  this doesn't seem to hve to do with rails' JS libs


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