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feram18 / led-stock-ticker

A display for real-time prices of stocks, cryptocurrencies, and forex rates on a Raspberry Pi-driven RGB LED matrix board. 📈
GNU General Public License v3.0
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"€" symbol not working #20

Closed Gautchh closed 1 year ago

Gautchh commented 1 year ago

Hi, You have made a great job on this project, all the code is well-structured.

I got some trouble with the "€" symbol, when I choose this symbol in the config.py. The matrix show only the logo and the clock, and the program stops. When I choose the "USD" everything work fine. I try several things but nothing work... I got the error code : "UnicodeEncodeError: 'latin-1' codec can't encode character '\u20ac' in position 0: ordinal not in range(256)" in the led-stock-ticker.log. If you have some time, can you help me find and correct this bug.

Have a nice day, Gautchh

feram18 commented 1 year ago

I see the issue. It's not on your end. It looks like it's having an issue with rendering the character to the screen. The character might be missing from the font. I'll have to fix the font files. Apologies for the inconvenience!

Gautchh commented 1 year ago

Hi, Thank you to consider this issue. I don't need apologies, you do such a great work in this project. Can you inform me if you have the time to correct this issue ?

Have a nice day,

feram18 commented 1 year ago

Yes, I'll try to tackle this issue over the weekend. Thanks for your patience!

feram18 commented 1 year ago

Issue should be fixed in v0.3.10.

For anyone interested, the issue was due to PIL fonts being limited to only 256 characters, so the € character (amongst many others) was not present in the PIL font, though it was present the original BDF font file. To resolve the issue, we are now using TTF fonts which are not limited.

Gautchh commented 1 year ago

Hi, thank you for all your work. Have a nice day.