Charset problem (Was: Re: Weather reporting in Rev)

[Mark Smith]

Dom, I use these two functions in my library to deal with utf8:

function utf8decode pString
   return unidecode(uniencode(pString,"UTF8"))
end utf8decode

function utf8encode pString
   return unidecode(uniencode(pString),"UTF8")
end utf8encode

They will convert to and from whatever you're local charset is.

Best,

Mark Smith

On 18 Jun 2009, at 15:09, Dom wrote:

> Ken Ray <kray at sonsothunder.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd probably use "screen scraping" techniques; for example, my zip  
>> code is
>> 54701, so I go to weather.com and enter my zip. That takes me to a  
>> page
>> which is this URL:
>>
>> http://www.weather.com/weather/local/54701? 
>> lswe=54701&lwsa=WeatherLocalUndec
>> lared&from=searchbox_localwx
>
> Here in France, we have a subsidiary of weather.com named  
> meteo123.com*
> :-)
>
> Anyway, your technique is working -- but, as the web is coded  
> according
> to the UTF-8 charset, there are some woes with the accented characters
> ;->
>
> The "charset" property of a stack is read-only - and can only be  
> "MacOS"
> or "ISO" (i.e. ISO 8859, Latin)
>
> Is it possible to work around this, not by hand?
> Will the UTF-8 charset be implemented in the future?
> something like "UTFTo mac" and "MacToUTF" ;-)
>
>
> * "http://m.meteo123.com/xhtml/cc/59270"
> I preferred to take the "Mobile" version, as the code is simpler to
> parse
>
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