wouldn't that make more sense to drop the umlaut and Düsseldorf = Dusseldorf - that is what other webservices do that can't deal with non-ascii characters. would be better than dropping the character completely
On Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 7:02:00 AM UTC+1 gjr80 wrote: > NOAA files use strict_ascii encoding > <http://weewx.com/docs/customizing.htm#Specifying_template_files> so no > umlauts or other accented characters unfortunately. You can change the > encoding but as the NOAA format reports are tabulated reports it will mess > up the format of the report. > > Gary > > On Tuesday, 26 January 2021 at 15:53:23 UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > >> The staion name has a German umlaut in it. It shows correctly on the web >> pages, but in the NOAA files it misses the letter completely. >> e.g. name = "Köln", NOAA file has "Kln" >> >> On Monday, January 25, 2021 at 11:52:49 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: >> >>> dumb question. the climatogical report & summary - Name, is missing "ö" >>>> looks like it did not like UTF-8. >>>> is there a way to manually fix this? >>>> >>> >>> Not a dumb question at all, but I don't understand it either. What "ö"? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2e7b2cd6-5504-472a-8e1f-f3d4a248224an%40googlegroups.com.
