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7 months ago

Degrees symbol in GEO_DMS string shows up as a strange character

When formatting a position in DMS format on the Instinct Crossover and Venu Square 2 like this:

var dms=posn.toGeoString(Position.GEO_DMS) as String;
The degrees symbol in the string shows up as Unicode 57520, hex 0xE0B0 instead of decimal 176.
This happens in the simulator in SDK 7.4.3.
I didn't test every device but others I tried do not have this problem.
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  • 7 months ago

    This has been the case pretty much since CIQ began, where the degree symbol from toGeoString() doesn't show correctly in the sim but it does on actual devices.  I know it was reported way back when because I reported it (this was long before the forums changed so you won't find a bug report).  One of the Garmin folks responded and I finally got to the point where for some reason it wouldn't change and just seen it as a sim fluke ever since.  This was 2015 or 2016..  It's the same on the most of the earliest devices to the most recent.  It shows correctly on the original vivoactive, but didn't with the va-hr (called "Tall Watch" before it was announced but was a preview device in the sim) for example.  Looks like it took a decade for others to notice, so probably a very, very low priority.  It shows as a empty box or a diamond with a ? depending on device.

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  • 7 months ago

    This has been the case pretty much since CIQ began, where the degree symbol from toGeoString() doesn't show correctly in the sim but it does on actual devices.  I know it was reported way back when because I reported it (this was long before the forums changed so you won't find a bug report).  One of the Garmin folks responded and I finally got to the point where for some reason it wouldn't change and just seen it as a sim fluke ever since.  This was 2015 or 2016..  It's the same on the most of the earliest devices to the most recent.  It shows correctly on the original vivoactive, but didn't with the va-hr (called "Tall Watch" before it was announced but was a preview device in the sim) for example.  Looks like it took a decade for others to notice, so probably a very, very low priority.  It shows as a empty box or a diamond with a ? depending on device.

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