Degrees symbol

It appears that somewhere along the way, the IDE switched from an 8-bit ASCII code to a 16-bit Unicode system. As such, you need to print both bytes with no intervening characters. Try this:

void setup() {
  Serial.begin(9600);

  for (int i = 128; i < 256; i++) {
    Serial.print(i);
    Serial.print("  ");
    Serial.write(0xC0 |(i >> 6));   // Notice Serial object uses write()
    Serial.write(i & 0x3F | 0x80);
    Serial.println();
  }
}

void loop() {

}

You'll note that code 167 is not the Unicode for the degree symbol; 176 is.