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RE MAPS-L: Degree symbol in Connexion in a 500 note
DA Friday, December 16, 2005
TO Maps-L
FR Angie

I catalog using OCLC Connexion and I'm trying to make a 500 note that includes a latitude longitude coordinate - including the degree and minute symbols. For some reason, my system is stopping me saying that the degree symbol (from the diacritics menu) is an "invalid character - data must be ALA characters."

Has anyone else ran into this situation and discovered a work around? I went ahead and created the record using [degree] (in brackets) instead of the symbol but it would be nice to get the symbol (as it appears on the map) in the 500 note.

Just to clarify - this isn't the lat/long of the map itself -- but instead it's a part of a string of text that I wish to include in a 500 note.

Thanks.

Angie


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ANGIE COPE
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