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
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