[pmwiki-users] pmfeed translation glitch
Chris Cox
ccox at airmail.net
Sun Jun 3 02:40:02 CDT 2007
Ben Stallings wrote:
> Hi, folks. I'm having trouble with the pmfeed recipe... I've got an
> RSS feed that has a standard HTML curly apostrophe (’) in the
> title of an article, but by the time it displays in the browser it has
> been converted to ctrl-Y (ASCII 0x19), which displays as a box.
>
> The problem seems to be in pmfeed's unhtmlentities function, which in
> turn calls PHP's get_html_translation_table function.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) Is the unhtmlentities function perhaps left over from an old version
> of PmWiki? It seems to me that recent versions of PmWiki can handle
> most HTML entities just fine without translation. If this function is
> no longer necessary, how should I safely go about disabling it?
>
> 2) Is it worth looking into whether my server's HTML translation table
> is incorrect? Is it likely to cause other problems down the line?
I haven't had time to study it... but I think (?) it's a problem
in that some feeds are UTF8 and some are not... and I didn't look
into what it would take to handle each. :)
Also, apparently, some feeds try to identify the type, some
get it right, and some get it wrong... so even more of a problem.
However, if anyone has some suggestions... I'll certainly
make the changes. Just one of the many reasons why pmfeed
is still "alpha".
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