PHP Web 'viewer' for Cumulus NOAA Style reports

[mcrossley]

Ah, I did this a while ago, and just looking at my reports page now, I see that I made some other changes as well

I made the page HTML5, and also changed the page code-page from UTF-8 (HTML default) to Windows-1252

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<meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type">

So the .htaccess on its own may not work.

[steve]

So, You may consider to include such a possibility to a future (not very distant future ) enhancement of the Cumulus PLEASE.

Does Mark's suggestion not work for you?

[pernaczy]

Does Mark's suggestion not work for you?

No it doesn't work.
I've tried several combinations and the only one that works is:
- the charset is set to UTF-8
- Cumulus otput (NOAA report) file is in UTF-8 format.
You can see it here: http://www.pogoda-niesiolowice.kaszuby. ... hp?yr=2012 (I purposely put there some other characters from my national language - ś ć ę ż ź ń- you can see them at the right-top of the report):

BTW. This problem (output format of the Cumulus) is related also to the e.g forecast generated by Cumulus. It uses words from "strings.ini" file. They are processed and being sent to web server (in ANSI format I think). So when "strange" (e.g my national) characters are used in the "strings.ini" file you see "black diamonds" in the forecast text too. Probably if the output of the forecast were in UTF-8 format it would have solved this problem too.
Best Regards,
Piotr

[beteljuice]

Piotr - you have several </head></body> in your page.
ATM things look alright to me

Try to get the spurious tags out of your page.

[steve]

I've uploaded a new beta build of 1.9.4 with an option to save the reports using UTF-8 encoding.

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9433

[pernaczy]

Piotr - you have several </head></body> in your page.
ATM things look alright to me

Try to get the spurious tags out of your page.

I did it. Thanks for your comments. I'm not an expert in html and php so, it must take time untill i can clean my pages up (I'm still trying to learn).
Best Regards,
Piotr

[pernaczy]

I've uploaded a new beta build of 1.9.4 with an option to save the reports using UTF-8 encoding.

https://cumulus.hosiene.co.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9433

Thank you very much Steve. You are quick and helpful as usual. I have installed this new version, changed the NOAA report save format and let's hope that this will "save my life". Unfortunately I have to wait until tomorrow.
Is there any hope for "forecast words" format change?

Best Regards,
Piotr

[steve]

Is there any hope for "forecast words" format change?

That would need the code which saves the processed web pages to change, and I don't think there is the same option with the code that does that, so I would probably have to rewrite a few sections of code. But I'll look into it; as I understand it, web pages are supposed to be UTF-8 now anyway?

[pernaczy]

as I understand it, web pages are supposed to be UTF-8 now anyway?

I'm not an expert, but I think that UTF-8 is (probably) the most convenient format for many "strange" languages (as mine is).

Going back to NOAA reports. The modification you have done to the latest version of CUMULUS (NOAA reports can be saved in UTF-8 format) doesn't work. I set up this option yesterday and unfortunately both "todays" files (NOAAYR2013.txt and NOAAMO0513.txt) have been saved in ANSI format. You can check it on my web page. Only those two have "black diamonds". All other reports I saved manually yesterday in UTF-8 format.

Best Regards,
Piotr

[steve]

Going back to NOAA reports. The modification you have done to the latest version of CUMULUS (NOAA reports can be saved in UTF-8 format) doesn't work. I set up this option yesterday and unfortunately both "todays" files (NOAAYR2013.txt and NOAAMO0513.txt) have been saved in ANSI format.

That's impossible! I tested it and it works!

But actually, I only tested the 'manual' saving, I forgot that the automatic saving is separate code

I'll change the other code and upload a new build later today.

[mcrossley]

as I understand it, web pages are supposed to be UTF-8 now anyway?

Well, UTF-8 is now the default for HTML5 and will cover virtually all use cases, for other HTML/XHMTL standards it is still a minefield.

[steve]

Well, UTF-8 is now the default for HTML5 and will cover virtually all use cases, for other HTML/XHMTL standards it is still a minefield.

So I could change the standard Cumulus web pages to HTML5, and change the encoding to UTF-8, but if I change the encoding (without it being optional) for 'extra' files (and where people had replaced the standard files with others), that may cause people problems?

[steve]

Auto-save now also changed, in build 1078, just uploaded.

[pernaczy]

Once more: THANK YOU Steve. It works.

Best Regards,
Piotr

[kingqueen]

I've uploaded a new beta build of 1.9.4 with an option to save the reports using UTF-8 encoding.

I think you're great.