Magpie character encoding for quotes
Development and Programming
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.
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
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
“as literal text.
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!
Awesome! This helped so much! I changed the following line of code in my header and suddenly an oft-crashing feed works perfectly!
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />Thanks a million, N+