[SOLVED] If Twitter stop updating (degree symbol)

[CrasHBoneS]

Running Cumulus 1.9.3 1059
Twitter was not updating and in diags log I had the error

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Twitter update error: HTTP/1.0 400 Bad Request

The error is caused by degree symbol in my twitter.txt file

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Temp.: <#temp>° C. Umid.: <#hum>%. Vento: <#wspeed> <#windunit>, dir.: <#wdir>/<#avgbearing>°, <#beaudesc>. Press.: <#press> <#pressunit>, <#presstrend>. Pioggia odierna: <#rfall> <#rainunit>.

The workaround is to include the text between "", now my twitter.txt file is like:

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"Temp.: <#temp>° C. Umid.: <#hum>%. Vento: <#wspeed> <#windunit>, dir.: <#wdir>/<#avgbearing>°, <#beaudesc>. Press.: <#press> <#pressunit>, <#presstrend>. Pioggia odierna: <#rfall> <#rainunit>".

Twitter is now updating with the degree symbol correctly displayed

https://twitter.com/meteobellaria

[William Grimsley]

Hi CrashBonesS,

Even though you have sorted the issue, are you aware that your tweets now have "" around them?

For example:

"Temp.: 0.2° C. Umid.: 88%. Vento: 15.3 km/h, dir.: ONO/295°, Brezza tesa. Press.: 1001.7 hPa, In lento calo. Pioggia odierna: 1.8 mm".

Hopefully, this isn't an issue that appears to you, but it would to me.

Thanks,

William

[CrasHBoneS]

Hi CrashBonesS,

Even though you have sorted the issue, are you aware that your tweets now have "" around them?

For example:

"Temp.: 0.2° C. Umid.: 88%. Vento: 15.3 km/h, dir.: ONO/295°, Brezza tesa. Press.: 1001.7 hPa, In lento calo. Pioggia odierna: 1.8 mm".

Hopefully, this isn't an issue that appears to you, but it would to me.

Thanks,

William

I know that could be an issue, but the choice are 2
1)Having tweets with ""
2)removing degree symbol from tweets

[steve]

I think the quotes are a red herring, personally. I can't see how they can make any difference.

[William Grimsley]

Yes, I actually agree with Steve! I think removing degree symbol from tweets is worse than having tweets with "" around them!

[mcrossley]

I just did a test tweet from Cumulus with a degree symbol: https://twitter.com/mcrossley

twitter.txt = Test, please ignore <#temp>%B0 C

Special characters have to be urlencoded as I understand it.

[steve]

Cumulus does the URL encoding as required. But if putting %B0 in the twitter.txt file works, that'll do for me.

[mcrossley]

Weird, I wonder why that worked then!

[steve]

The whole thing is a mystery to me. The code in Cumulus is very complicated, stuff has to be encoded and then re-encoded, and the fact that Twitter keep changing things and not telling anyone doesn't help.

[CrasHBoneS]

Cumulus does the URL encoding as required. But if putting %B0 in the twitter.txt file works, that'll do for me.

I tried to replace ° with %B0 but it did not work in my tweet

twitter.com/meteobellaria

[steve]

When there were problems with Twitter and degree symbols previously, I believe I suspected that it was to do with the settings on the users PC in some way. Note that degree symbols in the built-in standard tweet appear to work OK. Twitter is a pain, basically.