I am in Australia and https://www.skahan.net/weewx/purpleair.html works. So 
the Australian geo block is working OK.
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On Saturday, 26 August 2023 at 09:10:00 UTC+10 Tom Keffer wrote:

> Both the template and the skin configuration look fine.
>
> Despite being just down the road from you, I am unable to connect to your 
> webserver.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 5:15 PM vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> URL that rsync uploads to is https://www.skahan.net/weewx/purpleair.html 
>> - this will not be available unless you're in US/CA/AU probably due to some 
>> geoip blocking that I have set up on the ISP side to try to limit how many 
>> bots bang on the site.
>>
>> Same thing happens on chrome on mac os and iphone as well as Safari on 
>> mac os.   The weewx host is a current RaspiOS pi4.   Adding the 
>> encoding=utf_8 line didn't help, unfortunately.  The encoding was 
>> previously set to html_entities in skin.conf
>>
>> I've attached the .tmpl file and skin.conf for the skin in case there are 
>> obvious errors therein.  FWIW the skin is kinda ancient so it's possible I 
>> missed adding something along the way.
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 3:58:44 PM UTC-7 Tom Keffer wrote:
>>
>>> Internal to WeeWX, the label microgram_per_meter_cubed is encoded in 
>>> Unicode. To be included in a template, it has to be converted to an 
>>> appropriate byte string using an encoding. By default, the Seasons 
>>> templates use html entities to do this encoding. The results will be in 
>>> simple ASCII.
>>>
>>> Note: this is *separate* from the encoding used by the templates 
>>> themselves, which is generally UTF-8. This is what you're setting with the 
>>> #encoding directive. This is useful if one were to include UTF-8 characters 
>>> *directly 
>>> in the templates themselves*. But, that's not what's happening here.
>>>
>>> The html entity encoding for the cube symbol is either "&sup3;", or 
>>> "&#179;". For whatever reason, your Python installation is choosing the 
>>> latter, which your browser does not seem to be capable of interpreting as 
>>> the cube symbol. I've seen this happen when the file suffix is ".txt", but 
>>> yours is ".html" (check!).
>>>
>>> It may be a browser specific thing. What browser are you using? Perhaps 
>>> you can point us to the page?
>>>
>>> One thing you can try is another encoding besides html entities. For 
>>> example, utf-8.
>>>
>>> *[CheetahGenerator]*
>>> *  encoding=utf_8 *
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 3:30 PM vince <vince...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Thanks.  No joy.
>>>>
>>>> Added to top of the file under the echo line ala...
>>>>
>>>> ## Copyright 2009-2018 Tom Keffer, Matthew Wall
>>>> ## Distributed under terms of GPLv3.  See LICENSE.txt for your rights.
>>>> #errorCatcher Echo
>>>> #encoding UTF-8
>>>>
>>>> #set $periods = $to_list($DisplayOptions.get('periods', ['day', 'week', 
>>>> 'month', 'year']))
>>>> #set $plot_groups = $to_list($DisplayOptions.get('plot_groups', 
>>>> ['tempdew', 'wind', 'rain']))
>>>>
>>>> ## use this span to determine whether there are any data to consider.
>>>> #set $recent=$span($day_delta=30, boundary='midnight')
>>>>
>>>> <!DOCTYPE html>
>>>> <html lang="$lang">
>>>>   <head>
>>>>     <meta charset="UTF-8">
>>>>     <title>$station.location</title>
>>>>     <link rel="icon" type="image/png" href="favicon.ico" />
>>>>     <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="seasons.css"/>
>>>>     #if $station.station_url
>>>>     <link rel="canonical" href="$station.station_url/$filename" />
>>>>     #end if
>>>>     <script src="seasons.js"></script>
>>>>   </head>
>>>>
>>>>   <body onload="setup();">
>>>>     #include "titlebar.inc"
>>>>
>>>> And appended the AQI line to the footer to make it easier for me to 
>>>> find during testing...
>>>>
>>>>     <p class="footnote">
>>>>       $gettext("This station is controlled by <a href='
>>>> https://weewx.com'>WeeWX</a>, an experimental weather software system 
>>>> written in Python.")
>>>>       AQI: 
>>>> $latest('purpleair_binding').aqi2_5.format(format_string="%.0f")   
>>>>  ($latest('purpleair_binding').pm2_5_cf_1.format(format_string="%.1f"))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Result looks like:
>>>>       This station is controlled by WeeWX <https://weewx.com/>, an 
>>>> experimental weather software system written in Python. AQI: 64 (17.9 
>>>> µg/m³)
>>>>
>>>> Output in the .html is:
>>>>    <p class="footnote">
>>>>       This station is controlled by <a href='https://weewx.com'>WeeWX</a>, 
>>>> an experimental weather software system written in Python.
>>>> AQI: 64    (17.9 &#194;&#181;g/m&#194;&#179;)
>>>>
>>>> On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 3:16:01 PM UTC-7 gjr80 wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I notice the Seasons index.html.tmpl does not have a #encoding 
>>>>> directive (though the other Seasons .html.tmpl files do). Have you 
>>>>> tried adding a #encoding directive à la:
>>>>>
>>>>> #errorCatcher Echo #encoding UTF-8 <!DOCTYPE html>
>>>>>
>>>>> Gary
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, 25 August 2023 at 07:19:12 UTC+10 vince wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Well I can't explain it at all.  I appended the same .tmpl line at 
>>>>>> the bottom of index.html.tmpl for the Seasons skin (trusting Tom gets 
>>>>>> this 
>>>>>> stuff correctly) and I still see funny encoding in Safari + Chrome (mac) 
>>>>>> and in Chrome (iphone).   I can only guess it has something to do with 
>>>>>> the 
>>>>>> locale or i18n settings on the pi4 that weewx is running on, but I'm 
>>>>>> just 
>>>>>> guessing completely at this point.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Thursday, August 24, 2023 at 12:54:21 PM UTC-7 Karen K wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Unfortunately the greek my character and the cubic symbol are not 
>>>>>>> US-ASCII. So they have the 8th bit set. There are different methods to 
>>>>>>> do 
>>>>>>> that. The older one is ISO 8859, where one byte is always one 
>>>>>>> character. 
>>>>>>> The newer one is UTF-8 where one character can be 1, 2 or even more 
>>>>>>> bytes. 
>>>>>>> So if you have an UTF-8 character, containing of 2 bytes interpreted as 
>>>>>>> ISO 
>>>>>>> 8859, you see 2 characters instead of the one you want to see. 
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So the question is: What does the browser think about the character 
>>>>>>> set? And what character set is used for Cheetah?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See the first line of the templates *.html.tmpl. There is a line 
>>>>>>> beginning with #encoding followed by the name of a character set. That 
>>>>>>> name 
>>>>>>> must match the character set you used to save the file.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then there may be a line <meta charset="UTF-8" /> (or ISO-8859-1 
>>>>>>> instead of UTF-8).
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Then, in skin.conf there may be lines "encoding = ...". What do they 
>>>>>>> say?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Make sure, all the encoding directives match your file's encoding.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> vince schrieb am Donnerstag, 24. August 2023 um 21:29:46 UTC+2:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I have absolutely no idea what you just said.  Sorry - US ASCII 
>>>>>>>> person here :-)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> View source shows 
>>>>>>>> AQI: 56    (14.6 &#194;&#181;g/m&#194;&#179;)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> and https://www.w3schools.com/charsets/ref_html_8859.asp matches 
>>>>>>>> up (circumflex accent and micro symbol) but I have no idea what to do 
>>>>>>>> about 
>>>>>>>> it.
>>>>>>>>
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