[Straw-devel] Re: UTF-8

[Jan Alonzo]

Steve Laniel <address@hidden> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:22:25PM +0300, Juri Pakaste wrote:
>
>> Well, it depends. Generally speaking, Straw doesn't have a problem with
>> UTF-8. Now, I haven't looked too closely at your feed (and I wouldn't
>> know what's a valid UTF-8 byte sequence anyway), but see what the feed
>> validator says: http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%
>> 2Flaniels.org%2Frss
>
> Huh. Well, now I have egg on my face. It's a little
> puzzling, actually: the FeedValidator said that it didn't
> recognize some of the characters in the feed. Those turned
> out to be characters that commenters to my site copied from
> my feed (curly quotes, for instance) that didn't play nicely
> with the validator. Now, those shouldn't have messed up
> Straw's validation, and they never have before. Then again,
> I only recently switched the encoding to UTF-8, so it's
> probably some bizarre interaction amongst new changes.
>
> Anyway, now it's all working fine in Straw. Sorry for the
> false alarm.
>

Hi,

If you think that Straw could've handle it better, rather than not updating
your feed at all, then feel free to file an 'enhancement' against Straw in
[1].


Cheers,


[1]http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=&product=straw

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Jan Alonzo                          <address@hidden>

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