[OGDev] Weird characters in embedded RSS feeds

[David Sheldon]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:13:34AM +0000, Kake L Pugh wrote:
> Hello.  If you look at the OGL page for the West Indian Quay Cineworld, it
> has an embedded RSS feed of current showings, taken from the Time Out site:
>   http://london.openguides.org/index.cgi?UGC_West_India_Quay_Cinema,_E14_4AL
> 
> The problem is that there's some kind of encoding mismatch that leads to
> lots of "weird characters".  Is there anything that can be done about this?
> I've tested it elsewhere; it's not a problem limited to OGL.

It looks like that is UTF-8, but the page is claiming to be iso-8859-1.

There are two options here. One is to serve your pages claiming to be
UTF-8, the other is to transcode the RSS feed to iso-8859-1 with
something like iconv.

David


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