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June 01, 2005
Feeds and Character Set
Several of the feeds in the left sidebar...
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...contain accented characters. The current version of the rss-feed plugin I'm using doesn't correctly bring the utf-8 characters over to this page. One of these weeks I'm going to upgrade to a beta-version of totally re-written MT feed plugin from the same person. In the meantime, if you tell your browser the page is iso-8859-1 (Western), the feeds will look right, but this will screw up any accented characters in posts on this page. Just so you know!
Posted by johnn at June 1, 2005 11:04 PM
Comments
Yes, these characters sets are always problematic. I think I better avoid using non basic latin characters in the titles and categories for the moment.
Posted by: Daniel at June 1, 2005 11:34 PM
Well, as I say, it's a trade-off. If you want extended characters on your own blog, it's no problem. Movable Type uses utf-8 and everything works fine. It's just that feed plugin that messes them up when they appear somewhere else via mt-rssfeed. I need to upgrade this and also make a configure the rebuild script as a daily (hourly?) cron job so that the feeds are updated.
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at June 2, 2005 02:35 AM
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