Degree and minutes survey data

[Olly Betts]

On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 06:01:38PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote:
> Stacho asked back in 2003 if it is possible to enter into survex
> values such as 10 degrees and 20 minutes in the native form. 
> Did something come of that? I now have quite a bit of data in that
> form from a forestry compass.

I don't think it's implemented yet.  I don't recall Stacho asking,
so I probably just forgot about it (sorry Stacho).  I'll see what I can
do.

> I know you were thinking of something like  <DEG>:<MIN>'<SEC> instead of
> <DEG>°<MIN>'<SEC> but given how common utf-8 is I would think that one could
> support the ° character? Maybe add even a command *encoding utf-8 which could be
> added to a survex file to indicate it contains extended characters.

Probably not for now in the interests of getting it implemented sooner.
But we do need to consider the issue of what encoding the input file is
in, so we know how to display titles, station names, comments, etc.

Cheers,
    Olly