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I have a problem with using the RSS-Feed. I wrote an small rss-parser for my website which i am using for heise news and so on. I tried it with the exported feed from my s9y installation. But all Umlauts are looking weird (look under Aktuelle Blog-Einträge):
http://masterbootrecord.de/
The feed is from http://masterbootrecord.de/blog/feeds/index.rss

Is it maybe the problem, that my Installation is NOT UTF-8 (wrong option during installation - impossible to change?)?

The Feed says that it's encoded in UTF-8 but how can i check this?

I tried to utf8_decode the Feed before parsing it but this makes no difference...

Yes, all RSS feeds are UTF-8 encoded. If you write your own small RSS Parser you need to take care of XML input charsets and transcode them to your output charset.

In your case, you'd need utf8_decode() on each string, but it also depends on how you wrote your parser. Look at the serendipity_plugin_remoterss plugin, that one is a fully working RSS parser with UTF-8 support.

Regards,
Garvin

Thank you - i just saw that i was decoding the wrong text

Now i have another problem, this time with Trackbacks. Take a look at:
http://masterbootrecord.de/blog/Auf-der ... 1_169.html

The Umlauts in the Trackback are scrambled...

Yes, that can happen depending on the charset the blog is using that is sending the trackback to you.

Trackbacks are not specified which charset to use, and transcoding them is a bit problematic. So currently s9y just shows what you get.

If you use a UTF-8 character set, you should be fine with most blogs. But some send ISO-8859-1 characters which would then make trouble.

So either way, you can't cover all characters properly - this is a bit a problem of the trackback API, which had not been specified absoultely clear in this regard.

Regards,
Garvin