Pier sent his configuration file, weewx.conf to me.
As suspected, it includes a BOM ("byte order marker") at the beginning,
which signaled to the configuration parser that the file was encoded in
utf-8. So, when the parser read it, it automatically converted it to
Unicode. Hence, when interpreting something like
config_dict['HTML_ROOT']
the results came back in unicode, instead of ascii.
Pier: most likely you used some text editor which put the BOM at the
beginning of the file.
To convert your weewx.conf to a version that is pure ascii, do this:
mv weewx.conf weewx.conf.utf8
iconv -f utf-8 -t ascii//TRANSLIT weewx.conf
However, we really should protect against this within weewx. I've posted
issue #172 to deal with this.
-tk
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Keffer wrote:
> Thanks, Pier.
>
> The Unicode seems to be coming from weewx.conf. In particular, HTML_ROOT,
> SKIN_ROOT, and skin all seem to be in unicode, which would suggest that
> they are encoded as utf-8 within your copy of weewx.conf.
>
> Could you please send weewx.conf to me privately? While you could edit it
> to remove any passwords, or run it through wee_debug, I'm concerned that
> may change the byte coding. Send it to 'tkef...@gmail.com'.
>
> You mentioned that you have been "doing some experiments with weewx
> 3.5.0." Does this mean you have been modifying the code base?
>
> -tk
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 8:55 AM, Pier Francesco Costa <
> piercost...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> @Glenn
>>
>> Thank you for your suggestion! I will look into that!
>>
>> @Tom
>>
>> I followed your instructions, but just running doesn't generate a
>> meaningful log, so i started the daemon again.
>>
>> Here's the log.
>>
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