Re: Google Weather for dwm

Nice idea, and nearly there... I think.

However, executing the script (Win32) with the default codepage for US yields:

Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb5, with no 
+preceding start byte) at (eval 27) line 7.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb5, with no 
+preceding start byte) at (eval 27) line 19.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb5, with no 
+preceding start byte) at (eval 27) line 34.
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xb5, with no 
+preceding start byte) at (eval 27) line 34.
[19&#9516;&#9617;(25&#9516;&#9617;/13&#9516;&#9617;)Scattered Thunders
+torms|&#915;џќ26&#9516;&#9617;/13&#9516;&#9617;]
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Switching codepages helps:

>mode con cp select=65001

Status for device CON:
----------------------
    Lines:          600
    Columns:        220
    Keyboard rate:  31
    Keyboard delay: 1
    Code page:      65001


>wx.pl
# Identical four "Malformed UTF-8 message 
[18А(25А/13А)Scattered Thunderstorms|&#9729;26А/13А]
/13А]

<p>Certainly an improvement... and given my (wilful) iggerance of code
+pages and charsets, perhaps one (user) step from being as desired. Ho
+wever, <c> ;echo on
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or off has no apparent effect. Nonetheless, interesing project!

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Re^2: Google Weather for dwm by duelafn (Parson) on May 25, 2011 at 13:00 UTC
I get same malformed character warning (Linux), presumably due to global nature of `use encoding`. Removing the `use encoding` line and instead adding `binmode( STDOUT, ":encoding(UTF-8)" );` works for me. Good Day, Dean	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Google Weather for dwm by xyzzy (Pilgrim) on May 25, 2011 at 18:34 UTC
Ah, perfect. I never played around with unicode before but then I discovered that it has the skull and crossbones and the biohazard symbol and chess pieces and i ching and all sorts of other fun stuff. ww, `echo` under Unix prints to standard out (in this case to add an extra newline) `$,=qq.\n.;print q.\/\/____\/.,q./\ \ / / \\.,q. /_/__.,q..` Happy, sober, smart: pick two.	[reply] [d/l] [select]