[pmwiki-users] pmfeed translation glitch

Patrick R. Michaud pmichaud at pobox.com
Sun Jun 3 09:53:45 CDT 2007


On Sun, Jun 03, 2007 at 02:40:02AM -0500, Chris Cox wrote:
> Ben Stallings wrote:
> > Hi, folks.  I'm having trouble with the pmfeed recipe...  I've got an 
> > RSS feed that has a standard HTML curly apostrophe (’) in the 
> > title of an article, but by the time it displays in the browser it has 
> > been converted to ctrl-Y (ASCII 0x19), which displays as a box.
> > 
> > The problem seems to be in pmfeed's unhtmlentities function, which in 
> > turn calls PHP's get_html_translation_table function.
> 
> I haven't had time to study it... but I think (?) it's a problem
> in that some feeds are UTF8 and some are not... and I didn't look
> into what it would take to handle each. :)

Also, out of curiosity, what's the reason for de-converting the
html entities?  Can't they simply be left as html entities?

Pm



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