Try increasing the font size on your browser (you can hold Ctrl and scroll up with your middle mouse button to do this; alternatively, you could copy it into word and change the font size), and you will see that it is indeed written as "°", just as you say it should be. In small fonts, the difference between the two like in ば and ぱ both end up looking like two little lines. You'll notice that they look slightly different, but neither one really looks like a circle.
Posted by Anonymous on Aug 24th, 2010 at 12:05 am.
Try increasing the font size
Try increasing the font size on your browser (you can hold Ctrl and scroll up with your middle mouse button to do this; alternatively, you could copy it into word and change the font size), and you will see that it is indeed written as "°", just as you say it should be. In small fonts, the difference between the two like in ば and ぱ both end up looking like two little lines. You'll notice that they look slightly different, but neither one really looks like a circle.