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Bug 384367 - XML feed broken
XML feed broken
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: sysadmin
Classification: Infrastructure
Component: Mirrors
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Sysadmins
GNOME Sysadmins
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-12-10 14:33 UTC by Ross Golder
Modified: 2010-08-06 14:39 UTC
See Also:
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Description Ross Golder 2006-12-10 14:33:46 UTC 
Right now, the Gnome XML feed is again broken. Gnomefiles' front page is 
broken because of the bad feed, and Firefox's builtin RSS reader only 
renders the first 3 items and ignores all the rest of the feed.

Again, it's the same problem, the non-utf8 characters found in this line on 
gnome-screensaver's NEWS file:

  * Andrzej Polaty%Gń%@ski (pl)<br>

I think it's imperative to find a way to run python's or php's utf8 
normalization function in order to change automatically these characters 
before they get recorded in the XML file.
Comment 1 Eugenia Loli-Queru 2007-03-20 21:28:07 UTC 
Yes, please do. The feed breaks all too often, about 2-3 times per month -- for about a day each time.

This is how I do it for gnomefiles' feed through PHP so it doesn't break when a non-english character is present:
$RSS_content = mb_convert_encoding($RSS_content, "UTF-8");
Comment 2 Christer Edwards 2010-06-21 14:05:20 UTC 
Is this still an issue? (3yrs later...)
Comment 3 Tobias Mueller 2010-08-06 14:39:53 UTC 
I assume not. Please reopen if this is still an issue.