#659 Yahoo!, <here> & german "umlauts" / localized names
I am currently using Meteorologist 3.1.7 on macOS 10.12.6.
I live in Germany, where many cities have names containing "umlauts", like ä, ö, ü, ß (e.g München, Fürstenfeldbruck, Straßburg, ...).
When I set City Name to <here>, leave Display Name blank and set Weather Source to Yahoo! while being in Fürstenfeldbruck, the menu bar icon displays:
Fürstenfeldbruck Bayern
Provided by Yahoo!
Temperature: 9999°
Lat/Long: Invalid Location
For a manualy entered City Name of Fürstenfeldbruck Bayern or Fürstenfeldbruck, Bayern I get the same result.
Manualy entering Fuerstenfeldbruck, Fuerstenfeldbruck, BY or Fuerstenfeldbruck, BY, DE does the trick and I get the information I want.
=> It would be great if you could take a look at the mapping of the location data supplied by macOS to the Yahoo! APIs. :)
This sounds like a Yahoo bug but I'll see what I can do.
Apple returns the city name (with the umlauts) but it looks like Yahoo doesn't like them.
Ed
Guten tag Chris (that's the extent of my Deutsch).
If you are willing, I think I have a solution for you. Download the beta here and let me know if this works.
http://danleys.org/Meteorologist-3.1.7.dmg (Ignore the file name, it is version 3.1.8.b3.)
Thanks.
Ed
Actually pick up this version: http://danleys.org/Meteorologist-3.1.8.dmg. It is .b4
Ed