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Scientists suck at naming and abbreviating stuff (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (2 children)

Celsius is also basically always accompanied by a ° when abbreviated. So much so that "℃" is a single Unicode character.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

I am flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] [email protected] 4 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think that's only used in Chinese and Japanese, so that °C occupies as much space as a Chinese/Japanese character.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

One of my default phone keyboards had them. Either an old bersion of Gboard, or the Samsung keyboard.