[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #8278: use UTF-8-aware excerpt in feed widgets

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#8278: use UTF-8-aware excerpt in feed widgets
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 Reporter:  nbachiyski  |       Owner:  nbachiyski
     Type:  defect      |      Status:  new       
 Priority:  normal      |   Milestone:  2.7       
Component:  i18n        |     Version:            
 Severity:  normal      |    Keywords:            
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 When showing excertps the feed widgets calls {{{substr()}}} directly,
 which works on byte level and not on character level. Thus UTF-8
 characters are split into two and shown as diamonds in browsers.

 We have {{{wp_html_escerpt()}}} which does the trick.

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