Hi,
it would be very useful for displaying phase values like “ 34° “. But there is no degree character in the LUA character set. What can I do?
Dieter
I show this then as “34 degr.” or “34 deg”. It’s not hampering the visual recognition.
Yep, I use “deg”, but it´s old fashioned and remembers me on my first pocket calculator in early 70th.
Seriously, isn´t there a possibility to expand the character set with some special technical characters ?
Dieter
My remote script replaces the degree symbol ° with an asterisk * and that works reasonably well
Currently, E1 supports 127 characters of the standard ASCII table. I will add a note to my todo list to thinking about that. I can imagine a subset of unicode to HTML notation used for some special characters. I personally miss some kind of → ← symbols too.
arrows would be welcome; it saves a character compared with - > or < - 
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If supporting 8 bits or unicode is going to be a challenge, consider adding some sort of escape or macro sequence that gets translated to a subset of symbols during display. For example, \d or ${degree}.
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