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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