I am in Australia and https://www.skahan.net/weewx/purpleair.html works. So the Australian geo block is working OK. [image: Screenshot from 2023-08-26 09-25-36.png]
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 "³", or >>> "³". 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 µg/m³) >>>> >>>> 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 µg/m³) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> 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. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> -- >>>> 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d39d52c7-3a0d-4a2a-93a8-97fb2f329b7fn%40googlegroups.com >>>> >>>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/d39d52c7-3a0d-4a2a-93a8-97fb2f329b7fn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>>> . >>>> >>> -- >> 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 weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >> > To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/34810d7b-e939-4f26-9868-41da36ffc992n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/34810d7b-e939-4f26-9868-41da36ffc992n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. 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