How to print the degree symbol easily

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/2008/does-the-symbol-work/13353#13353

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/229722/sim---chinese-emulator-font-does-not-display-degree-symbol

I found the degree symbol doesn't work on some devices like fenix6 when the system language is Chinese.

IIRC, the symbol exists in a number font. But it is really not convenient to use more than one font to print a text string.

Is there any workaroud except custom fonts

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+1 _psx_ over 2 years ago

Make a space and draw circle :)

But you have custom fonts anyway so adding very small char is the best solution. Remember that you can define as char only the area where is a picture so use char's parameters (x,y, etc.) in fnt file.

+1 li2niu over 2 years ago in reply to _psx_

THX. But I have found a new workaroud to cope with this. Just draw ℃ or ℉ which are included in system fonts

0 _psx_ over 2 years ago in reply to li2niu

Can you say that mixing the fine family on the same watch face is good solution?

0 li2niu over 2 years ago in reply to _psx_

Sorry. Can you elaborate it?

0 _psx_ over 2 years ago in reply to li2niu

1. 2 families of font doesn't have to look good in one line °C

2. you have draw twice

3. How much do you save?

4. And you can't be sure that °F and °C will be on all devices

5. the size of epix.TINY is 2x bigger than f6p.TINY

so many problems if you mix custom and build in font and you save a few bytes