Subj : Re: WX
To   : KenDB3
From : Doctor Who
Date : Tue Mar 29 2016 04:23 pm

 Re: Re: WX
 By: KenDB3 to Digital Man on Tue Mar 29 2016 11:12 am

> I think my problem is that data is coming back from Weather Underground in
> UTF-8, which is not a problem when it is in (US) English, but starts to
> present a problem with the couple of Latin based languages I tried to
> implement. Is there any way to clean/convert the text before displaying it?
>
> Someone asked for this feature, and I thought it would be an easier ask than
> some of the other requests I got, but it proved more challenging thanks to
> the UTF-8 characters.
>
> Any advice is welcome :-)
>
> ~KenDB3
>
If you're running on Linux, you could pass the text through iconv. Something
like "cat utf8encodedfile.txt | iconv -f utf8 -t cp437 > cp437encodedfile.txt"

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