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Title: TweeTWX Help
Post by: txweather.org on April 17, 2019, 03:32:13 PM

I got TweetWX from Ken working but my tweets have some odd data...

NWS fcst: ThisAfternoonChc Shwrs And T-Storms : , Hi 79°F ↓; TonightShwrs And T-Storms : , Lo 66°F ↑; ThuShwrs And T-Storms : , Hi 79°F ↓;  #weather

Notice the &uarr and the &darr

Title: Re: TweeTWX Help
Post by: saratogaWX on April 17, 2019, 03:51:40 PM

Yep.. that's deliberate and from the NWS.  The ↓ is a down-arrow character, the ↑ is a up-arrow -- both indicate changes in temperature beyond what is 'normal' for the period.

Both are done as HTML entities and not raw UTF-8 characters (which are needed for Twitter) since the data that appears in your normal forecast (index and wxforecast pages) are both ISO-8859-1 character sets, and a UTF-8 character for those arrows would result in a 'blob' character display on your website.

You can change TweetWX-forecast.php from

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$utfmessage = iconv('ISO-8859-1','UTF-8//TRANSLIT',$message);
to

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$utfmessage = iconv('ISO-8859-1','UTF-8//TRANSLIT',$message);
$utfmessage = html_entity_decode($utfmessage,ENT_NOQUOTES,'UTF-8');
and that should make Twitter happy.

Title: Re: TweeTWX Help
Post by: txweather.org on April 17, 2019, 03:58:07 PM

Thanks Ken!