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This is frustrating :-)
Is it possible to fix that?
Thank you
Frédéric
Thank you for your quick reply (as usual :-) )
Don't you think you loose the coming back of a large audience with this encoding problem?
Quick links to RSS validator :
only affects 1-2 rss readers that use the default ms library.
Also affects anyone based on PHP Magpie or Perl XML::RSS.
Sean
:-)
It has been mentioned by 2 people in 4 years. The rss feed does about 50k unique's a day. I'd call that - a liveable problem. (compared to the solution which would involve about 200-300 hrs of programming. which is effectively a nonfixable error at this point)
> Also affects anyone based on PHP Magpie or Perl XML::RSS.
I use perl rss to read it about 100 times a day. I have never seen a error due to char encoding. We are read by many people who use PHP Magpie - encoding is not an issue that causes any fatal errors.
After a quick look, It appears that the only problem for now is the special character: ’
With a simple Replace('’','\''), you fix the problem ...
and I will be happy (before all the others) :-)
Frédéric
We are read by many people who use PHP Magpie - encoding is not an issue that causes any fatal errors.
From my feed reader:
MagpieRSS: Failed to parse RSS file. (not well-formed (invalid token) at line 103, column 176))
And using XML::RSS:
not well-formed (invalid token) at line 103, column 176, byte 5422 at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/i386-linux-thread-multi/XML/Parser.pm line 185
Sean
right said fred - but it's not that simple said jed. Also known as: fix it for one person, and break it for another.
The real issue here is the system used for encoding. Ultimately, we should move 100% to unicode. Unfortunately, many of todays browsers don't play nice in that arena. There is not a piece of forum software on the net that does not experience similar to this problem in one form or another. All of them must mishandle char encoding when dealing with a set of world wide browsers, todays html standards and the lack of adherence to those standards.
The problematic character should come from a copy-paste of a MS Word document. I can't see this char on my keyboard
:-)
Anyway, this is not dramatic. That could be very convenient for us to add WebmasterWorld feed on our RSS reader.
software on the net that does not experience similar to this problem in one form or another
Too true... I cannot agree more. If you really need the WebmasterWorld RSS feed it isn't a big job to make a script to pre-parse it yourself and either strip out or fix invalid characters on the fly.
