Subj : Re: WX
To   : Digital Man
From : Deuce
Date : Wed Apr 13 2016 01:32 am

  Re: Re: WX
  By: Digital Man to KenDB3 on Tue Mar 29 2016 05:37 pm

 >  > 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?
 >
 > Yes, UTF-8 could be translated, but the results may not be very good/useful,
 > depending on stuff (e.g. the source and target locale).
 >
 >  > 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 :-)
 >
 > Stick to US-English? :-) Seriously though, I don't really have any advice on
 > this topic as I haven't been big on translating software to other locales or
 > worrying about non-CP437-capable terminals. Maybe Deuce has some advice.

In the latest CVS, there's a utf8_cp437.js file you can load()... after you do,
you can call utf8_cp437(utf8_string) and it returns a cp437 version of the same
string.  It handles most common codepoints, but unknown ones are replaced with
a question mark.  If you find ones that need to be added, please let us know.

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