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"message": "Snow/Ice Bei Temperaturen unter 0 Grad, teils zwischen -8 und \u000A -5 Grad, tritt GlÃ¤tte durch Ã1⁄4berfrierende NÃ¤sse oder Reif auf StraÃen\u000A und Wegen auf.&nbsp)",

the original message on http://meteoalarm.eu:




Snow/Ice


Nach dem Schneefall kommt es zu glatten Strasse durch Schnee, Schneematsch oderüberfrierender Nässe.

teamxbmc

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6 years ago

Hop Hop

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Could some wunderland dev look at this? Would be great to have this solved.

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6 years ago

attila.jakosa

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Same problem with Hungarian strings.

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6 years ago

Brendan Hayes, Official Rep

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It has to do with us converting the characters to be safe in the message. If you switch to XML it has less of the problems. The data comes in with carriage returns, which breaks JSON, so we have to escape them. Unfortunately it doesn't look that great in JSON. The solution might be using XML on your end, and I'll see what we can do here to at least make that have the right chars.

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6 years ago

MikeRhg

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Thanks for the reply Brendan, but even in XML not all special characters are right. I am using german umlauts and most of them are still broken.

I already reported this nine months ago (see http://apicommunity.wunderground.com/...)

I was always using XML, so it looks like that I am on the lucky side with that decision when I hear that JSON is much more bad :-)