[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6607: RSS widget doesn't correct the target encoding

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#6607: RSS widget doesn't correct the target encoding
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 Reporter:  guillep2k  |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  defect     |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal     |   Milestone:  2.7      
Component:  General    |     Version:  2.6      
 Severity:  normal     |    Keywords:           
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 When your blog is iso-8859-1 and your RSS widget takes information from an
 UTF-8 blog, the characters in your page can become garbled. The reverse is
 also true (your blog is UTF-8 and the RSS'd blog is ISO-8859-1). Here's my
 proposal for wp-includes/rss.php (around line 62):


 {{{
                 $this->parser = $parser;

 #MODIFICATIONS BEGIN
 switch( @strtoupper(get_option('blog_charset')) )
 {
         case 'UTF-8':
                 xml_parser_set_option( $this->parser,
 XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'UTF-8' );
                 break;
         case 'ISO-8859-1':
                 xml_parser_set_option( $this->parser,
 XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'ISO-8859-1' );
                 break;
 }
 #MODIFICATIONS END
                 # pass in parser, and a reference to this object
                 # setup handlers
                 #
                 xml_set_object( $this->parser, $this );
                 xml_set_element_handler($this->parser,

 }}}

 This would handle only iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and vice-versa, but most
 western blogs use one of these two encodings. Handling a percentage of the
 cases is better than none at all, I think. :)

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