Trouble with RSS

By bjergtrold on 28 Feb 2003 at 13:26 UTC

I want to syndicate my site.

There is only one problem, the content is mostly in german, so there are lots of umlauts. The format_rss_channel function in common.inc uses htmlentities. This function translates the umlauts into html code (

Comments

translating umlauts into entities is correct RSS

ax commented 1 March 2003 at 00:37

see http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/spec. if a RSS reader can't display it, the reader is broken. which one is yours?

Maybe

(not verified) commented 1 March 2003 at 09:41

*sigh* Till now I haven't found any RSS reader which can display it right. Opera, IE and the RSS Validator report broken XML. Any german RSS of any importance doesn't use encoded html entities.
Oh well, for the time being I will use my kluge...

the spec says

ax commented 1 March 2003 at 18:58

Entities:
[...]

Note: Since RSS 1.0 does not require a DTD, be sure to include inline
declarations of entities used aside from the aforementioned five. The following
DTD fragments are very useful as a source of HTML-compatible entities.

[...]

that's exactly what drupal does (with the xhtml-lat1.ent, which includes german umlauts). if opera and ie can't display it, than it's because they are unable to deal with RSS feeds natively (see also this closed bug). if the RSS Validator doesn't validate drupal feeds containing umlauts, it's because it doesn't validate the inline declaration properly. but it's not drupal's fault.

*sigh* (couldn't resist )