ashuttl/linecast v2.0.0

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linecast 2.0 runs on Windows, installs a single linecast command,
and picks its defaults from your location. Upgrading from 1.x, four things change
unless you say otherwise; each has a one-line fix below.

Major changes this version:

• Windows: linecast now runs in Windows Terminal. Windows
  installs tzdata and truststore; macOS and Linux remain
  dependency-free.
• Install (breaking): The six short commands (weather, sunshine,
  moon, tides, radar, maps) are no longer installed, because
  their names collide with other programs. Use linecast <command>,
  or run linecast link once to put the six names back as links to
  the linecast binary (it skips any name something else owns;
  --remove undoes it). A shell alias works too.
• Units: Metric is now the default everywhere except the United
  States, judged by the saved location or the machine's IP.
  linecast units metric|imperial|auto saves a choice, LINECAST_UNITS
  and --metric/--imperial override it per run, and radar and maps
  follow the same setting instead of guessing from the interface
  language.
• Clock: The default follows the country instead of the interface
  language: 12-hour in the United States, Canada, Australia and the
  other places that write 6:50 pm, 24-hour everywhere else. A French
  speaker in the US now gets 12-hour; an English speaker in France,
  24-hour. linecast clock 12|24|auto saves a choice, LINECAST_CLOCK
  and --12h/--24h override it per run, and sunshine follows the
  same preference as the other views.
• Icons: linecast no longer assumes a Nerd Font. Terminals known to
  bundle its glyphs use them, other interactive terminals use emoji,
  and piped output uses plain Unicode. linecast icons nerd restores
  the full set for a terminal whose font linecast cannot see;
  --icons nerd|emoji|plain and LINECAST_ICONS choose per run, and
  linecast doctor previews all three.

Other changes:

• Settings: linecast units, linecast clock and linecast icons
  now say which setting is in force and where it came from.
• Cache and settings: JSON is read as UTF-8 on every platform. A saved
  location or cached response with a non-ASCII name no longer appears
  lost on Windows.
• Drawing: Emoji in alerts and map labels wrap at their real display
  width. Sunshine and moon no longer acquire coloured rings on 256- or
  16-colour terminals, and sunrise and sunset use plain arrows in every
  icon set.
• Moon: The full-screen layout follows the terminal. A wide window
  floats the details beside a taller moon; a small one shortens or
  drops lines before they can wrap, and every size fills the screen
  while keeping stars out from under the text.
• Moon: The next full moon carries its traditional Almanac name —
  Harvest Moon, Wolf Moon, Blue Moon and the rest. The last line gives
  the day of the year and counts down to the next equinox or solstice;
  --json carries the same fields.
• Tides: Queensland stations now show the future. Maritime Safety
  Queensland's predicted datasets carry the whole calendar year,
  replacing the monitoring feed that ended at the present and left the
  curve flat. Coverage grows from about two dozen sites to nearly
  eighty gauges; a saved station from before resolves to the nearest
  new gauge.
• Tides: The footer names the station's data source — NOAA, CHS,
  Queensland Open Data, Hong Kong Observatory, TideCheck, or Open-Meteo's
  tide model — and the location pill drops its "(model)" suffix. The
  header and marine line fit correctly with emoji, and an unfamiliar
  timezone shows its UTC offset instead of plain UTC.
• Tides: --station and TIDE_STATION accept a TideCheck station ID
  such as fes2022-lisbon without spending a search request.
  linecast tides --nearby, --search, and linecast doctor show how
  many of the day's 50 free-tier requests have been used;
  LINECAST_TIDECHECK_PAID=1 hides the tally.