German "Umlaute" (ä, ü, ö, ß) in compliments module

Anhalter42

@beck0r I’ve got at least one “ö” in my compliments and it works; not sure why, though. You can try using an external .json file for your compliments, since thats what I did.

beck0r

Ok so here’s what I did to get that going

At first created my own .json file named “custom_complis.json” at the following path

/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliment

Added my compliments to the external file by using the syntax described here https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/tree/develop/modules/default/complimentst
Changed my config.js to…

		{
			module: "compliments",
			position: "lower_third",
			updateInterval: '20000',
			config: {
				remoteFile: 'custom_complis.json'
				}
		},

Restart MM
At this point the “umlauts” we’re still shown as unknown characters
Connected myself to the pi via WinSCP and browsed to my custom .json file
Opened my “custom_complis.json” file with notepad++ and changed the encoding to “UTF-8”
Restart MM -> Working

Thank you

beck0r

errr… after a restart of the pi the custom file doesn’t load anymore :-(
I don’t get it…can somebody help me?

Anhalter42

@beck0r I guess you changed something ;) just restarting doesn’t brake anything.

So, what do you see? Standard compliments? Nothing? Error message?
Does it work with compliments embedded into config file?
Could you post config and remote compliments file?

beck0r

@Anhalter42
Sorry I was a little bit frustrated after a long day in front of the PC… I have validated my code against JSONLint aaaaaaaaaand… a single quotation mark " was missing in the middle of the file ;)