19 Feb
2007
19 Feb
'07
10:13 a.m.
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.
Kake
19 Feb
19 Feb
10:24 a.m.
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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-- jmm
11:02 a.m.
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 10:24:06AM +0000, David Sheldon wrote:
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.
Obviously if you serve your pages claiming to be UTF-8 you will still
need to make sure that you transcode any RSS feeds that might not be
published in UTF-8 into utf-8.
David
--
"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only
coded it."
(Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting)
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