The title says it all. I've tried copying and pasting the character (the obvious attempt) with no success, and have read several solutions using TeX interpreters such as this but those don't seem to work for me. Looking at the documentation < https://octave.org/doc/interpreter/Use-of-the-interpreter-Property.html#XREFinterpreterusage > I can't even get the degree symbol to show up - trying both of the following