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Euro symbol doesn't display (6 posts)

  1. xdreams
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    We have an RSS feed that has the Euro symbol in it, it doesn't display in Wordpress. Any idea how to fix this?

  2. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    A link to the feed would be helpful. Without knowing what you are seeing, there's little we can help with.

    I have a feel that youp;re looking at the symbol and it;s been encoded. When read in a working rss reader, it should be returned to the symbol. But, again we need a link.

  3. xdreams
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    thanks for quick response

    it works in the rssreader thats it

    http://feedtran.com/feeds/freerolls.php

  4. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Actually it shows up fine in Firefox, both in the browser and in source.

    It is failing though when I try it on the feed validator:

    http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Ffeedtran.com%2Ffeeds%2Ffreerolls.php

    Actually you;re failing a bunch of things there.

    My guess, and I hate dealing with charsets, is we have a charset problem. The feed generator is producing it;s feed while using the ISO-8859-1 charset. Somethings tells me your databases are in a different charset. Can you please check what charset your databases are using?

  5. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Actually just saw this in the report. Looks like the charset is the problem:

    Your feed appears to be encoded as "ISO-8859-1", but your server is reporting "US-ASCII"

  6. tdjcbe
    Member
    Posted 14 years ago #

    Possible fix:

    http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum98/542.htm

    You may want to get with the developer of whatever program you;re using there and ask them about it though. If you;re having the problem, chances are someone else is as well.

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