[wp-hackers] Need internationalization-issue help, UTF-8 RSSfeeds...

[David Chait]

DUUUUUUH.

Thanks Ryan... apparently I'm just WAAAY overworked (and unemployed) and my
brain is really starting to go on me...  I'll look at the xml_parser options
further, test out forcing UTF-8 mode.

-d

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ryan Boren" <ryan at boren.nu>
To: "WordPress Hackers" <hackers at wordpress.org>
Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:39 PM
Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] Need internationalization-issue help, UTF-8
RSSfeeds...


>
> > So... How programmatically do I keep from stomping the UTF-8 chars?
Even
> > when debugging through the feed processing, it looks like it is too late
and
> > the UTF-8 to ascii (or something) 'stomp' has already occurred.  I
wouldn't
> > be surprised to find that it is in fact certain PHP XML library calls
that I
> > am making to convert the XML into structured arrays that is part of the
> > problem (and would, painfully, write my own XML converter if need be).
I do
> > understand that some of the other string functions I am using will
> > completely bork UTF-8 strings at this point (trim/strip/substring
functions,
> > for example).
>
> The expat parser allows setting the source and target encodings to UTF-
> 8.  I believe it uses UTF-8 for its internal representation.  Do you use
> expat?  Does xml_parser_create("UTF-8") not help?
>
> Ryan
>