RSS problem in CHinese

naiadray · 2006-08-09 06:04:52

Hi there,

I’ve upgraded my TXP to 4.0.3 recently, however i am experiencing problem withe RSS.

Before the RSS can be correctly displayed in rss reader, but now the title of the site (only title, other content are displayed fine) can not be displayed in correct chinese character… instead it’s all question mark

does anyone know how to correct this problem?

many thanks in advance!!
airo

zem · 2006-08-09 08:02:37

Can you post an example link please?

Also bear in mind that RSS feeds have changed significantly since 4.0.3, for the forthcoming 4.0.4 release.

naiadray · 2006-08-09 08:54:31

this is my rss link

http://www.kidulthood.com/ape3ape4/index.php?section=article&rss=1

as u can see, the content is in correct encoding, but title is ??? which suppose to be three chinese characters..

thanks!

zem · 2006-08-09 23:17:39

If you can, try editing rss.php and changing this line (near the top, around line 28):

 $out[] = tag(doSpecial($sitename),'title');

to this:

 $out[] = tag(escape_title($sitename),'title');

or alternatively:

 $out[] = tag(htmlspecialchars($sitename, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'),'title');

Last edited by zem (2006-08-09 23:23:56)

naiadray · 2006-08-10 01:29:29

thank you alex for your reply

i tried both method, but they don’t work….

i even tried to hardcode the name inside that line (not sure if i did that right…. i am not too familiar with coding)
$out[] = tag(“xxx”) , ‘title’);

where xxx is the 3 chinese characters

but result comes out even worse… IE gives me error when trying to read the rss feed..

thank again!!

zem · 2006-08-10 02:05:15

but result comes out even worse… IE gives me error when trying to read the rss feed..

What error?

zem · 2006-08-10 02:08:42

I’m not sure this is a feed problem. Your whole site seems to be incorrectly encoded.

You should check the PHP mbstring.encoding_translation setting.

Last edited by zem (2006-08-10 02:09:58)

naiadray · 2006-08-10 02:47:17

IE didn’t give detail report on the error… it just says it cant open the feed..

i checked the mbstring.encoding_translation setting, it’s already off

if the whole site is incorrectly encoded, is there anything i can do?

the fact is… long time ago when i upgraded from g1.9 (if the name is correct) to a RC3.. i had a really bad experience that all articles turned into question marks… so i did a research on internet and finally found someone mentinoed that i should add a line –
$charset = $method(“SET CHARACTER SET utf8”,$DB->link);
before the line
$result = $method($q,$DB->link);
in txp_lib.php file

and also change the database collation to “utf8_general_ci”

which i did and sucessfully solved the problem of ?? marks article

but the rss feed still cannot be shown correctly at that time and i couldn’t find any solution… so i copy the rss.php and overwrite the newer version rss.php in RC3 … probably that’s not what i should suppose to do, but at least that solve my problem at that time

this time when i upgrade to 4.0.3 … the rss feed comes out beautifully except for the title… …

that’s the whole story… ^^

could there be any solution??

thanks!!

zem · 2006-08-10 12:21:20

if the whole site is incorrectly encoded, is there anything i can do?

My mistake, perhaps – looks like Chinese has stopped working on my system for some reason. http://www.kidulthood.com/ape3ape4/index.php is showing all messed up here, but I think that’s just me.

IE didn’t give detail report on the error… it just says it cant open the feed..

Hard to know what went wrong then. Could’ve been a PHP syntax error.

naiadray · 2006-08-11 02:34:49

thanks alex for ur time

i just got one last question … can i hardcode the name of my site inside the rss.php codes instead of dynamically read ?? i am just thinking would that be a simple way to get them displayed properly ..

thanks again!!

zem · 2006-08-11 23:25:35

You could. You’ll have to modify it every time you upgrade though.

It’d be much better if we could find a proper fix.

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