[Xastir] New features

[Ken Koster]

On Saturday, April 23, 2016 4:25:42 PM PDT Tom Russo wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 01:20:47PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> > On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:06:42AM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron 
collision of the <n7ipb at wetnet.net> flavor, containing:
> > > A heads up for those testing the latest.
> > > Bug #1,
> > > Wherever a degree symbol is supposed to be printed it shows as multiple
> > > extended characters.  (station config, weather)
> 
> [...]
> 
> > I found, however, that replacing all of those direct-entered special
> > characters with "\xB0" returned function to normal.
> > 
> > I can fix it in cvs that way if you'd like.  Or you can.
> 
> Committed and tested.  The degree symbol is now inserted into sprintf'd
> strings using the "\xB0" format specifier instead of the literal degree
> symbol character.  This should prevent it from accidental replacement in
> the future, since it's now four ASCII characters in the source, not a single
> Unicode/UTF-16 character.

Thank you Tom.

It turns out that one of my editors was assuming that the files were in UTF-8 
and messed things up.   I found out that much this morning before having to 
leave for the day.   I had it partially fixed but ran out of time to finish 
the job.   I'm very glad you were able to take care of it.

I need to talk with the developers of that editor (kate) to find out just why 
it has that behavior since I certainly didn't expect it to change things I 
didn't explicitly ask for.

Bad Editor,  Bad, bad....
I should stick with VI...

And I like your fix just for the fact that I never have liked embedding 
special potentially non-printing characters in source.  Much better to 
explicitly identify what you want.

Thanks again
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