VWS Not Displaying "F" in the 5-Day Forecast

[W3DRM]

For some unknown reason VWS has started displaying an "A" rather than a "F" for degrees F. The A is a special character but I couldn't figure out how to display in this text.

Anyway, I have attached a screen capture of what I am seeing.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated.

NOTE: This only appears in the 5-Day Forecast and Records and Normals section.

[skysummit]

That's what is in your index page.  Check to see what's in your usa.htx file where that "A" is showing up.

Code:

<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#5386ff"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>34°</b></font></td>

<td align="center" bgcolor="#5386ff"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>34°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#5386ff"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>34°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#539fff"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>36°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#539fff"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>36°</b></font></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#ec53d3"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>18°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#b953ec"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>22°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#d353d3"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>20°</b></font></td>
<td align="center" bgcolor="#d353d3"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>20°</b></font></td>

<td align="center" bgcolor="#ec53d3"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>18°</b></font></td>
</tr>

[mackbig]

Strange.  My old vws page does not even use units, C or F.

As Scott said, post your htx if possible.

My version of usa.htx (from when I first installed, but I used and used a modified version of international.htx) shows this

Code:

    <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_1^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_1^°</b></font></td>
             

So if yours is similar then VWS is inserting the offending capital A with circumflex... Maybe WU changed something in forecast datastream that VWS is reading... but that would affect others...? Strange indeed.

Andrew

[W3DRM]

Well, I have looked at usa.htx and that section looks as follows:

         <tr>
                  <td align="center" style="background-color: #E1E1E1"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_day1_1^</font></td>
                  <td align="center" style="background-color: #E1E1E1"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_day1_2^</font></td>
                  <td align="center" style="background-color: #E1E1E1"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_day1_3^</font></td>
                  <td align="center" style="background-color: #E1E1E1"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_day1_4^</font></td>
                  <td align="center" style="background-color: #E1E1E1"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_day1_5^</font></td>

                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img height="44" alt="Clear" src="http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/^forecast_icon1_1^.GIF" width="44" border="0"> </font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img height="44" alt="Clear" src="http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/^forecast_icon1_2^.GIF" width="44" border="0"> </font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img height="44" alt="Clear" src="http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/^forecast_icon1_3^.GIF" width="44" border="0"> </font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img height="44" alt="Clear" src="http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/^forecast_icon1_4^.GIF" width="44" border="0"> </font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial"><img height="44" alt="Clear" src="http://icons.wunderground.com/graphics/conds/^forecast_icon1_5^.GIF" width="44" border="0"> </font></td>

                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_conds1_1^</font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_conds1_2^</font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_conds1_3^</font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_conds1_4^</font></td>
                  <td align="center"><font face="Arial" size="2">^forecast_conds1_5^</font></td>

                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_1^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_1^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_2^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_2^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_3^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_3^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_4^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_4^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_hi1_5^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_hi1_5^°</b></font></td>

                </tr>
                <tr>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_lo1_1^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_lo1_1^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_lo1_2^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_lo1_2^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_lo1_3^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_lo1_3^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_lo1_4^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_lo1_4^°</b></font></td>
                  <td align="center" bgcolor="#^temp_for_lo1_5^"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>^forecast_lo1_5^°</b></font></td>

                </tr>

As you can see, everything that is being displayed comes from variables that VWS should provide the values for. This started happening a couple weeks ago and I haven't made any changes to the code before or after the change. I did reboot my system and thus, restarted VWS but nothing changed.

[saratogaWX]

But... is the .htx page saved in UTF-8 or ASCII format.. I'm thinking that your editor has thoughtfully converted the .htx file to UTF-8 while the webpage default is to display in ISO-8859-1 .. check it out by changing the character set your browser uses to view the page .. if it looks ok in UTF-8 but not in ISO-8859-1, then the .htx file just needs to be resaved in ASCII.

[W3DRM]

Ken,

You're a genius! I just remembered that I had made a change and added the comment at the top of the page indicating that I would soon be implementing a new format for my website (your new VWS AJAX/PHP template). Well, I was using a new editor on my Win7 system and not the normal editor that I used to use. It looks like the new editor was doing exactly what you described. I reedited the usa.htx file with my old editor and the problem just disappeared and is now back to normal. I'll have to file that one away for future reference. I'll also have to look into my new editor (Coffee Cup Free HTML Editor) and see if there are some settings I can change to eliminate this problem in the future.

Thanks again!!

[saratogaWX]

You're welcome, Don!

This 'feature' of some editors (especially the ones associated with the cPanel file editor via web) has burned many in the past.