£ annoying � sign

admin · 10-05-2010, 11:28:07 AM

Anyone know how to fix this: Current price: £35

on the homepage reading the DL RSS feed.

Thanks

Admin

rob · 10-05-2010, 11:31:52 AM

Check doctype declarations , or could be the feed outputting incorrectly.

Do you have direct link to the feed?

retired_member13 · 10-05-2010, 11:35:17 AM

That error is normally caused by the character encoding - ISO versus UTF, ie the feed is encoded as one and the script is treating it as another.

Regards

Quote:

Originally Posted by admin

Anyone know how to fix this: Current price: £35

on the homepage reading the DL RSS feed.

Thanks

Admin

tifosi · 10-05-2010, 11:52:37 AM

Needs the header to be UTF8.

In php this can be done with e.g:

header('content-type: text/html; charset: utf-8');

nnh · 10-05-2010, 12:23:21 PM

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">

Pain...get that with ebay widgets too......

admin · 10-05-2010, 11:04:30 PM

I did that but it didnt help....

jimm · 11-05-2010, 02:55:05 PM

Is it going into your db?
If so just do a replace on � to £

mat · 12-05-2010, 10:13:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimm

Is it going into your db?
If so just do a replace on � to £

Beat me to it. If you have control over what it displays set it to the above.

admin · 12-05-2010, 11:04:57 PM

I dont no, its an RSS feed

JDubya · 12-05-2010, 11:23:30 PM

You can try just before outputting the data pushing it through the php function:

$string = utf8_encode( $string );
OR
$string = utf8_decode( $string );

Because although you have changed the doc type to utf-8, firefox (in my case) is ignoring this tag and rendering the page in ISO-8859-1. If I go View -> Character set encoding in my browser, and select manually "utf-8" it rectifies the problem with some of the weird symbols I can see on this page.

My guess is - VB was configured not to use utf-8 and your DB tables will not be in utf-8 but probably the latin1 swedish_ci charset - meaning your templates stored in the DB are not in utf-8. So that's why my browser is ignoring the utf-8 character declaration in the header. And the data with the weird pound sign is probably coming in as utf-8.

So maybe utf8_decode() will convert it to the same as the page. You will also need to remove the header charset=utf-8 declaration.

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JDubya Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Buenos Aires Posts: 83 No Classified Ratings Domain Trader Rating: (100% / 1)	You can try just before outputting the data pushing it through the php function: $string = utf8_encode( $string ); OR $string = utf8_decode( $string ); Because although you have changed the doc type to utf-8, firefox (in my case) is ignoring this tag and rendering the page in ISO-8859-1. If I go View -> Character set encoding in my browser, and select manually "utf-8" it rectifies the problem with some of the weird symbols I can see on this page. My guess is - VB was configured not to use utf-8 and your DB tables will not be in utf-8 but probably the latin1 swedish_ci charset - meaning your templates stored in the DB are not in utf-8. So that's why my browser is ignoring the utf-8 character declaration in the header. And the data with the weird pound sign is probably coming in as utf-8. So maybe utf8_decode() will convert it to the same as the page. You will also need to remove the header charset=utf-8 declaration.

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