Most of the skin templates use utf-8 encoding, so the formal answer is that special characters must be entered using that encoding.
However, if you cut and paste from a source such as copypastecharater.com, 99% of the time the paste will use utf-8 and it will display properly. On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 2:18 PM D R <[email protected]> wrote: > I have made some changes to the current.inc skin generating file and now > want to tweak it just a smidge. > > > In the current conditions, listing the various values, I used the > ($trend) operator to get the difference from 24 hours ago. > > I had it in a line at the bottom of the listing of values, but see that > the barometer uses a (...) form to indicate change. I stuck the > formatting for the temp difference after the current outside temp, > within () and it works. Now I'm feeling brave and would like to add the > capital Greek Delta symbol in front of the value. I know it may be a > little odd for someone who might casually look at the page, but this is > for me. I know in Word or Excel you can hold down the Alt key and type > in the value, but I don't know if that is exclusively for Windows > environments or not. > > > I looked in the skins.conf and also for the default values for the > database element values, but didn't find a delta that I could copy and > paste. > > Is it possible to insert this character? I know some special characters > do show up, like the degree sign in F and C, and wind direction, so the > Cheetah engine must be able to do it. > > May I ask for what that might be, or point to an area that explains how > to do such insertions? > > Thanks, Dale > > > -- > 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/7290361a-3495-1e63-48f5-7b2eac1d2f58%40gmail.com > . > -- 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/CAPq0zEBjM6BGC0Vgknb-opDH8bx97k-DQpwWtYWoUQ4aX%3DXkqQ%40mail.gmail.com.
