Those are not Unicode characters, they are HTML entities encoding Unicode
characters.

If you want a special character, such as a degree sign, which cannot be
encoded in 7 bits, you need to encode it somehow. There are two practical
choices: HTML entities, or UTF-8. WeeWX allows you to go either way.

See the section *File generation options
<http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#File_generation_options>* in
the *Customizing
Guide*.

If you are not familiar with encoding, how it works, and why it is needed,
I recommend this guide  *The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer
Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets
<http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html>.* It is now nearly 15
years old, but still very relevant.

-tk

On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 8:17 AM, Paul Miller <[email protected]> wrote:

> I'm using WeeWX to produce json reports of the data collected from a
> Vantage Pro2. I'm having difficulty finding an answer in the docs to this
> question; is there a way to remove the unicode symbols that WeeWX injects
> for the degree symbols and such?
>
>
>    - title: "Current Values",
>    - location: "Washington, D.C.",
>    - time: "02/26/2018 10:30:00 AM",
>    - lat: "38*&deg;* 54.43' N",
>    - lon: "077*&deg;* 02.21' E",
>    - alt: "0 feet",
>    - hardware: "Vantage Pro2",
>    - uptime: "2 days, 18 hours, 35 minutes",
>    - serverUptime: "3 days, 22 hours, 56 minutes",
>    - weewxVersion: "3.8.0",
>    - stats:
>    {
>       - current:
>       {
>          - outTemp: "68.1*&#176;*F",
>          - windchill: "68.1*&#176;*F",
>          - heatIndex: "68.1*&#176;*F",
>          - dewpoint: "49.3*&#176;*F",
>
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