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iPhone—hold down 0 and ° should be on the pop up.

℃ and ℉ to the rescue! https://graphemica.com/%E2%84%83

> this is a compatibility character provided for roundtrip compatibility with legacy encodings. […] The Unicode standard explicitly discourages the use of this character

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius#Unicode_character)

I'm sort of buying and not buying this interpretation. Celsius is discussed under section "Unit symbols" in the PDF (page 8-9 of the linked Chapter 22), where the quoted "it is better" sentence appears...

...then immediately afterwards a new section named "Compatibility" starts where the use of code points that are composites of several letters, e.g. ℡ and ℻ are indeed discouraged, suggesting they be spelled out in full as TEL and FAX instead.

Do you feel ℃ falls into a continuation/overlap between these two sections?

My phone has the degree sign ° but it requires me to click on numerical input then additional symbols to access, so I just shorthand it to deg.