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Incorrect space between value and degree sign #86

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Using the Location: GPS (German: Standort (GPS)) experiment and the tab ‘Simple’ (‘Einfach’), Phyphox displays numerous values as follows:

Screenshot showing the ‘Simple’ tab of the *Location (GPS)* experiment. The UI language is German. Among other things, there are values for latitude, longitude, and direction in degrees.

Among other things, values for latitude (“Breitengrad”), longitude (“Längengrad”), and direction (“Richtung”) are displayed. They all have the unit degrees (°).

The issue I see here is that there is a space between the value and the degree sign. Although spaces are compulsory between values and virtually any other unit (including °C), degrees that do not indicate temperature—as well as units denoted by primes (′) or seconds/doubleprimes (″)—instead must not have a space between value and unit sign. Cf. the SI Brochure, section 5.4.3 p. 149:

The numerical value always precedes the unit and a space is always used to separate the unit from the number. […] The only exceptions to this rule are for the unit symbols for degree, minute and second for plane angle, °, ′ and ″, respectively, for which no space is left between the numerical value and the unit symbol.

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