About a decade ago, I read this paper *The Absolute Minimum Every Software
Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>.* It does a great job
of explaining code sets. Even if you're not a developer, it explains why
some email comes out as gobbledygook. Highly recommended.
-tk
On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 5:39 PM, Jim W. <wolff.slow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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> 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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