Consensus on BSC temperature reporting?

[Gregg Liming <gregg@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

After having searched this list for methods for temperature reporting
w/i BSC, I'm having difficulty determining a consensus.  It seems that
while there is a consensus on putting the temperature value in the text
field, a standard practice for units and scale are missing.  In most
cases, "degrees" for units seems implied (although, I've noted at
least
one exception) and then the first letter of the scale is appended.  Is
this accurate?  Does case matter?  Can spaces exist between the value
and "scale letter"?

I realize that the "beauty" of BSC is informality, but my
preference
would be to drive to a consensus.  Or, would adopting some other schema
for temperature reporting be better altogether (i.e., is this trying to
make BSC do too much)?

Gregg