Magpie Problem with Special Characters?
Development and Programming
16 years ago
I am pulling a feed that mapgie will not validate because of the following line:
<description>One day last month, María Victoria Vindel gave her 15-year-old students what some parents called a shockingly graphic lecture on reproductive health: Slides of dismembered and disfigured fetuses interspersed with Biblical quotations and pictures of a grinning José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, the Spanish prime minister.</description>It appears that the characters with the accents: “í” and “é” invalidate the feed. Can we fix this? Magpie doesn’t read the feed but firefox and safari both read it fine.
16 years ago
The problem was the charset in the header. I had it set to:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">but as soon as I changed it to the following my crashing feed was suddenly a-ok!
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
16 years ago
Awesome, thanks. That was bugging the crap out of me.