Thanks Tom. I appreciate all the help you have given me!
On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 6:58:20 PM UTC-5, Tom Keffer wrote:
>
> The directive "strict_ascii" means just that: only characters that can be
> represented in the 7 bits, or 127 characters, of the ascii code set will be
> printed. This does not include the degree sign.
>
> If you truly want a degree symbol, you will have to choose an encoding.
> While there are dozens out there, weewx offers only two: 'html_entities',
> or 'utf8'.
>
> The former, html_entities, will cause weewx to emit
>
> °
>
>
> which all browsers will recognize as a degree sign. Most text editors will
> not.
>
> The latter, utf8, will use multibyte encoding and weewx will emit two
> bytes
>
> 0xC2 0xB0
>
>
> which most browsers and text editors will print as a degree sign. But, not
> all.
>
> I would suggest using utf8 and see if that works for you.
>
> I know code sets can seem terribly confusing and that's because they are.
> There are countless different ways of jamming all the characters we
> commonly use in a handful of bytes. Fortunately, these days, the world has
> pretty much settled on UTF8.
>
> -tk
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 3:44 PM, Jim W. <wolff....@gmail.com <javascript:>
> > wrote:
>
>> Sorry.. Rpi3b running latest Raspbian. Installed from DEB package. I have
>> modified the Standard skin.conf file with:
>>
>>
>> [[[temp.txt]]]
>> # Report that makes current outTemp available to other program
>> encoding = strict_ascii
>> template = temp.txt.tmpl
>>
>> and the temp.txt.tmpl file looks like:
>>
>> $current.dateTime
>> $current.outTemp.format("%.1f")
>> $trend.outTemp
>>
>> and the txt file generated looks like:
>>
>>
>> 11/22/2016 06:30:00 PM
>> 37.6F
>> -4.2F
>>
>> Thanks for any insight!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday, November 22, 2016 at 5:40:47 PM UTC-5, Tom Keffer wrote:
>>>
>>> We're going to need a little more information. Is this a stock weewx
>>> installation? Or, have you made modifications to the skins or to skin.conf?
>>>
>>> What is the platform?
>>>
>>> -tk
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 2:30 PM, Jim W. <wolff....@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> At the risk of inciting the fury of AM... I have a question regarding
>>>> the degree symbol. I'm using the tag $current.outTemp and
>>>> $current.outTemp.format("%.1f") and both produce the expected result
>>>> EXCEPT without the little degree symbol? I have read, re-read... and
>>>> re-re-read the Customization guide but can't figure it out?
>>>> Thanks for any insight!
>>>>
>>>> Ps... If this question causes an apoplectic reaction please hit the
>>>> delete key... take a deep breath and think of butterflies!
>>>>
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