Subj : Re: WX
To   : Deuce
From : KenDB3
Date : Wed Apr 13 2016 02:15 pm

  Re: Re: WX
  By: Deuce to Digital Man on Wed Apr 13 2016 01:32 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?

 >> 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. 

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

Thanks Deuce. You and DM rock. I'll see if I can utilize it and how it plays
along with the Weather Underground data coming back. If it's more trouble than
it is worth, I may take DM's rather realistic advise and stick to English, lol.

Much appreciated, gentlemen.

~KenDB3

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