£ annoying £ sign

[Admin]

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

on the homepage reading the DL RSS feed.

Thanks

Admin

 

[rob]

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

Do you have direct link to the feed?

 

[retired_member13]

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

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

on the homepage reading the DL RSS feed.

Thanks

Admin

 

[tifosi]

Needs the header to be UTF8.

In php this can be done with e.g:

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

 

[nnh]

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

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

 

[Admin]

I did that but it didnt help....

 

[jimm]

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

 

[mat]

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

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

 

[Admin]

I dont no, its an RSS feed

 

[JDubya]

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.

 

[JDubya]

Some RSS feeds allow you to specifiy the charset - or at least let you know what it is.