I'm glad you see that as well, I'm fed up of people telling me I'm seeing things when I get funny characters on their sites (Including ordinary html) !
The unproven response is the wrong charset is applied to the format in which the file was written and / or saved in.
The report itself is created by Cumulus, Notepad++ says "ANSI as UTF-8"
Notepad++ reports your page as "ANSI as UTF-8", and is declared as UTF-8 in it's META data.
Interestingly, in my browser, your .txt reports show the black diamond, but not in notepad++, the .txt reports on my site do not show the black diamond in my browser
Time for an experiment
Using notepad I want you to modify NOAA-reports.php
MAKE A BACKUP OF IT FIRST !
Go down to about line 430 and change from this:
Code:
if($rpt){
echo "<pre>\n";
echo preg_replace('|<|Uis','<',$rpt);
echo "</pre>\n";
}
echo "</div> <!-- END noaa_rep_container -->\n";
To this:
Code:
if($rpt){
// NASTY work-around, the ONLY way I find black diamond question mark (or deg character)
$checkIt = explode("(", $rpt);
$dodgy = substr($checkIt[1],0 , 1);
// the ONLY way I can replace when black diamond (unconditionally) to °
$rpt = str_replace($dodgy,'°',$rpt);
// END nasty work around
echo "<pre>\n";
echo preg_replace('|<|Uis','<',$rpt);
echo "</pre>\n";
}
echo "</div> <!-- END noaa_rep_container -->\n";
Caution: I can't find the real code for the black diamond anywhere
This will replace
ALL instances of the 'black diamond' with
° (degree symbol)
Edit: a couple of silly errors removed.
Upload the modified file to your site and let's see what happens
(Edit: It works !)
If anyone has a definitive answer as to why this kind of problem occurs and how to prevent it in the first place .....
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