Bug: UTF-8 encoding in Github repo, issue #315

[Douglas]

I have solved the mystery of degree symbol display - as explained here:

Degree symbol error

I have FINALLY solved the mystery of the degree symbol! Yea!! [degree] It’s MS. In their infinite wisdom - unlike the rest of the world - they expect unicode utf-16 to be the default unless you specify the source files to be utf-8. So when you use a unicode char like the degree symbol, which is takes 2 bytes in utf-16 (°) - with utf-8 it treats the string as 2 seperate bytes… thus you get the A°. There’s several work arounds, but since we’re not using a lot of uni…