Feed Informer: Forums » Topic: Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis

admin on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

admin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:40:39 +0000

All's well that ends well! :)

robindewever on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

robindewever — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 09:01:51 +0000

Aha, that's it! It's the Cutenews CMS software that messes it up!
I knÃ©w FeedDigest was too superior to be responsible :)

Thanks A LOT!

admin on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

admin — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 07:51:11 +0000

Old posts typically don't refresh unless their ID changes as we use their ID to determine if a post is new or not, and don't otherwise update because with thousands of feeds per second, it's "almost" impossible to check every post for changes.

I looked at the source feed for this digest and didn't see any accented characters in it either?

robindewever on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

robindewever — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:24:30 +0000

Hmm... no change. But: did the feed refresh the older items? There's a mistake in the 'Klompen'-post (which is an old one; to be seen at http://www.robindewever.nl/blog.php) and it didn't dissapear.

admin on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:40:18 +0000

If changing the encoding (remember to do it both at Feed Digest *and* on your page) doesn't help immediately, then that's not the solution. The encoding change at our end would take place immediately.

robindewever on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

robindewever — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 17:31:30 +0000

Thanks, I changed the encoding. When can I see the results?
Do I have to update my blog? Can you maybe higher the refresh ratio?

admin on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:10:03 +0000

One potential problem might be that your page is in iso-8859-1 encoding. Your digest is as well, I notice, which -should- be okay. But it might be worth trying to change to UTF-8 on the digest and the page just to see.. all you'd need to change is your meta tag and switch to UTF-8 in our control panel. There *might* be an issue where you're reading a character from a UTF-8 feed which isn't converting into ISO-8859-1 properly..

robindewever on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

robindewever — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:06:28 +0000

Aha! I'm using it to convert my blog. It's originally publishing to one of its own CMS homepages (I'm using CuteNews CMS), but I'm using FeedDigest to convert it and embed it (with javascript) into my page. The page I'm having trouble with is located at: http://www.robindewever.nl/blog.php, and it has the following RSS URL: http://app.feeddigest.com/digest3/E6QYXEUJZM.rss

admin on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:45:56 +0000

Where are you using the digest? These characters work in general (as does pretty much all UTF-8 content, including way out stuff like Arabic, Chinese and Cyrillic) but there may be something particular about the deployment or digest that is causing an issue with yours.

robindewever on "Feed is not taking accent marks, diaeresis"

robindewever — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 13:13:58 +0000

Hello everyone!

My feed is not taking diaeresisses and accents marks. When a word has one in it, it wont display the character. So, for instance, 'blasÃ©' becomes 'blas'. And that sucks :)

Can you help, mister administrator? Or anyone?

Thanks a lot!
Robin