?Problem with special chars

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Hello, nice script!

At the time rss2html is running on my localhost to test the script before I'll include it in my website and it works fine but special chars like "ä", "ö", and "ü" are not correct displayed.
I read that it would help to choose UTF-8 as charset so I changed it in the html-tpl but it didn't help.
I don't know, maybe I have to change other things in the PHP-Script or anywhere but I'm a newbie in PHP and don't know what to do. If you know how to solve my problem please write the solution step by step.

Sry my english is damn poor, hope you undertsand me.

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

Hello, nice script!

At the time rss2html is running on my localhost to test the script before I'll include it in my website and it works fine but special chars like "ä", "ö", and "ü" are not correct displayed.
I read that it would help to choose UTF-8 as charset so I changed it in the html-tpl but it didn't help.
I don't know, maybe I have to change other things in the PHP-Script or anywhere but I'm a newbie in PHP and don't know what to do. If you know how to solve my problem please write the solution step by step.

Sry my english is damn poor, hope you undertsand me.

If your feed is in proper UTF-8 all should work fine. However, windows is known to use some non-UTF-8 characters. If you provide a link to your webpage and your feed I will try to help.

Jim

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Ok, I uploaded the files to my FTP:

http://www.clan-ohne-namen.org/rss2html.php

It's the standart template because I'm still testing.

So, you see all characters are displayed correct, only the special german chars like ü, ö, ä and ?Ÿ are not displayed right.

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

Ok, I uploaded the files to my FTP:

http://www.clan-ohne-namen.org/rss2html.php

It's the standart template because I'm still testing.

So, you see all characters are displayed correct, only the special german chars like ü, ö, ä and ?Ÿ are not displayed right.

What is the link to the feed? Is that in UTF-8 ?

Jim

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/rss/0,5291,,00.xml
Thats the link to the file, I couldn't any charset information in the file.

Greetings Jay

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/rss/0,5291,,00.xml
Thats the link to the file, I couldn't any charset information in the file.

Greetings Jay

Your feed is in "iso-8859-1", a character set used by english versions of windows. The most recent version of rss2html.php is either 2.22 or 2.23. They both contain the same ability to convert between character sets if the module is installed on the server. But the difference in character sets is the cause of the "bad" characters.

Jim

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

I tried to change the charset to iso-8859-1 in the meta-tag of the html template.
I think I must install a new XML-Parser (2.22 or 2.23) on the Webserver or is there another solution for this problem?

Jay

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

I tried to change the charset to iso-8859-1 in the meta-tag of the html template.
I think I must install a new XML-Parser (2.22 or 2.23) on the Webserver or is there another solution for this problem?

Jay

I would upgrade, since the parser only outputs UTF-8.

Jim

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Sry, I'm a little bit stupid ;)

You mean I should upgrade the XML-parser on my Webserver to a newer version which only output UTF-8?

Thx for help.

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

Sry, I'm a little bit stupid ;)

You mean I should upgrade the XML-parser on my Webserver to a newer version which only output UTF-8?

Thx for help.

I meant you should upgrade rss2html.php

Jim

Joined: 19 Mar 2006 Posts: 6

Ok, but i can't find a version above my current version which I downloaded here from the download site of freeforall.com.
Is a later version available?

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

Hk. wrote:

Ok, but i can't find a version above my current version which I downloaded here from the download site of freeforall.com.
Is a later version available?

If you have either version 2.22 or 2.23 then you have the latest version, and the problem is your web server doesn't have the required module to covert between the charactersets.

Jim

Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 3

MacSupport wrote:

If you have either version 2.22 or 2.23 then you have the latest version, and the problem is your web server doesn't have the required module to covert between the charactersets.

Jim

Could you ellaborate on what "modules" for converting character sets you are referring to?

Using RSS2HTML I provide free feed content to interested webmasters for thier site. My blog feed is automatically produced in UTF-8, which I think is great, but a lot of webmasters haven't caught the vision of Unicode, yet.

For maximum impact, it is better for me to provide various encodings (but mainly ISO-8859-1) for feeds, to match the recepients page encoding.

If you could provide a list of the required modules and the appropriate code line that goes above:

echo $template;

Thanks, Brent

I could then create

It would be greatly appreciated.

Joined: 24 Feb 2005 Posts: 2393

webva wrote:

MacSupport wrote:

If you have either version 2.22 or 2.23 then you have the latest version, and the problem is your web server doesn't have the required module to covert between the charactersets.

Jim

Could you ellaborate on what "modules" for converting character sets you are referring to?

Using RSS2HTML I provide free feed content to interested webmasters for thier site. My blog feed is automatically produced in UTF-8, which I think is great, but a lot of webmasters haven't caught the vision of Unicode, yet.

For maximum impact, it is better for me to provide various encodings (but mainly ISO-8859-1) for feeds, to match the recepients page encoding.

If you could provide a list of the required modules and the appropriate code line that goes above:

echo $template;

Thanks, Brent

I could then create

It would be greatly appreciated.

The modules I am refering to are in PHP, this one that looks like the issure is mbstring, but that also uses iconv and others.

Jim

Joined: 02 May 2006 Posts: 3

Ok, if I understood the PHP doc on ICONV, all I needed to do is put:

$template = iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1", "$template");

just above
echo $template;

When I do this, my feed reads down though the date and stops. No title or excerpt. Also, no matter how many MAXITEMS, I list, it only shows the title, description, etc down through the first entry's date and stops output. In other words when MAXITEMS=3 it does not show the dates for all three, just for the first. And still no entry title or excerpt.

This is on a feed that ALWAYS has a quotation mark in the entry titles. If I use the same line above and a feed that doesn't have quotations, it appears to work fine.