[Motion-user] Getting a Percent Sign (%) into on-Screen Text

[John V. <jva...@gm...>]

Hello Motion Users;

I'm using Motion 4.3.1-1 on a Raspberry Pi 3 Model2  using PiOS 
(Raspbian GNU/Linux 10 (buster); Kernel 5.4.51-v7 5.4.51-v7)

All is working as advertised and I have bash code to collect weather and 
rainfall stats and put them into the picture using text_left via /curl/.

The problem I'm encountering is trying to include the Percent sign (%) 
after the humidity level.

No amount of jiggering will get the % appended to the humidity value.

This is the string I am feeding to string_left that works correctly: 
/Partly%20Cloudy%2079F%20Humidity%3A60\nWind:South@{10}mph/

This string gets me an error message from Motion daemon: 
/Mostly%20Cloudy%2081F%20Humidity%3A58%25\nWind:South@{11}mph/

The error message is *The server did not understand your request.*

What do I do to protect the /%/ sign or its hex equivalent /%25/ from 
having Motion interpret**the string as a hex code other than that of the 
percent sign?*
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All the Best…

/John /