Magpie character encoding for quotes
Posted: 31 March 2008 07:07 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I’m using Magpie to pull in feeds on:

http://www.supernova2008.com/go/testindex

The quotation marks aren’t encoding properly.  I’ve tried all the fixes I can find in the forums without success. It’s a Feedburner feed, so both the feed and the blog are encoded with UTF-8.

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Posted: 18 June 2008 12:24 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Hi Kevin,

I’m experiencing the same kind of problems. Did you find a solution in the two years between?

This post has 250 views, but no solution is posted. If I find somehting I’ll let it know here!

Erwin

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Posted: 29 October 2008 04:29 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Anyone else seen this problem? Magpie seems to turn quotes or other characters like

“

into bizarre characters when it renders, though it only seems to do so in the title field. I have an RSS feed in which I am encoding the titles via the {exp:xml_encode} tag, but when magpie retrieves and displays it, it mauls quotes and double-quotes something awful. Should I be encoding the titles in a different way?

If I use PHP’s htmlentities call on the titles in the RSS template, that fixes it in Magpie as it PHP converts the & to the HTML entity, but then hurts the feed’s display in an RSS reader since the feed then renders the

&#8220

as literal text.

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Posted: 29 October 2008 04:37 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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I’ve experience major problems with RSS feeds (not validating feeds), map pie errors and even crashes.

THE solution was the convert the total EE installation, all databases to UTF-8. Now, even chinese characters work without any problem!

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