Re: How can I get an angstrom symbol in Octave?

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 9/21/19 10:06 PM, Brett Green wrote:
> Now I'm wondering why using single vs. double quotes makes a 
> difference... what's important, though, is that it works.

The single quotes are 'absolute' whereas double quotes allow 
interpolation of special characters like $ and backquote sequences, so 
\deg is seen as [\d e g] which is [d e g] because \d is not one of the 
anointed escapes.

So, you could use double quotes but you'd have to write it as "\\deg": 
the backslash escapes the second backslash so the backend receives the 
four-character string \deg.