Opened 4 years ago
Last modified 4 years ago
#274 accepted Defect
Non-ascii characters in FLEXTRA output — at Initial Version
| Reported by: | hcpxvi | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | FLEXTRA 6 |
| Component: | FLEXTRA | Version: | FLEXTRA 5 |
| Keywords: | Output | Cc: |
Description
A problem that occurs with FLEXTRA is that the output file can contain non-ascii characters. This happens because the variable datestring(1:24) is written out, but the non-standard call which would have filled it with today's date is commented out, meaning that the variable is never initialised. The simplest fix is to edit opencetoutput.f, openflightoutput.f and openoutput.f . In each case, find the comment
C call fdate(datestring)
and immediately after it insert the line
datestring="----- Not Available ----"
One could just remove the print statements that print out datestring(1:24) but the above suggestion keeps the layout of the output file identical to how it was before, while ensuring that it is pure ascii.
The non-ascii characters are benign to some users, but can cause trouble for anyone trying to read the FLEXTRA output into python 3.
