Wrong coding in RSS

[krisp]

I have a forum with some threads that where originally english. Then some of the first post was translated. Fx. the title tags was removed and title translated to source language:

Like this: http://www.thegame-online.dk/showthread.php?t=13761

Now the rss feed containing such posts are very messed up for source language: http://www.thegame-online.dk/externa...2&forumids=205

Encoding is utf-8 instead of ISO - so æøå not shown correctly + some of the text that is supposed to be translated in feed is not translated and so on (webmaster tools will not accept the feed because of errors).

For other languages such a feed is just empty: http://www.thegame-online.dk/es/exte...2&forumids=205

Feeds for forums not containing such posts are normal: http://www.thegame-online.dk/externa...S2&forumids=22

PS Please edit the post and paste the links since you are not directed to the correct link by clicking on the link.

[vBET]

Thanks for note - we will correct this. As I see under Firefox the issue is only with some signs. We will investigate what made those signs so special. Is this happens only on RSS? Does on real page you see normal text?

Also can you please see your 2nd link under Firefox and try to detest what signs are changed to ? - it should be much easier for you since it is in your language.

[krisp]

Real pages are normal and are indexed normal in Google. You can try and run feed in Explorer. You will then see in the source (view source for page) æ ø å seems to be changed to chinese or japanese characters.

[vBET]

Thanks. One more ask - can you give me some real sentence which will include those signs? I will use it on our testing forum to reproduce issue and correct bug

[krisp]

Yes: "Jeg har købt adskillige bøger om mænds mode i år" (I have bought several books about mens fashion this year)

[vBET]

Corrected - will be included in 3.3.0

Tested under IE, Mozilla and Opera (each one shows RSS channels differently).

Also RSS will not use templates for translated text - it will be faster and without unnecessary code (images and envelope)

[krisp]

Something strage is going on:

1. Source language feed not working in IE and operah + showing strange characters in FF: http://www.thegame-online.dk/external.php?type=RSS - encoding seems to be utf-8 instead of iso

2. Language feeds showing normal http://www.thegame-online.dk/sv/external.php?type=RSS2 ... but ...

3. All feeds are from 18'th - feeds are not showing posts from 19' and forward .. cant figure the last one out right now - external data provider set to update each minute and showing 2 days back + 500 threads.

[krisp]

Seems vBet feed not updated either ??

[vBET]

Ok I re-open this thread. WE will check it all and correct. Sorry for troubles.

[krisp]

Strange - all my feeds are working perfectly now and updated. Also the original problem in this thread with a mixture of language tags and no tags in posts are also no longer a problem. Also I can see the vbet feed is working now.

I wonder why this was an issue yesterday - perhaps because the language cache tables where empty ? But vbets cache was not empty also ??