[TYPO3-english] Question on RSS feed (yafi/chnewsfeeds)

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

Orish Shrestha wrote:
> But when the news is being fed to tt_news table by yafi, it seems to
> convert the characters in utf-8 and hence I am getting all garbled
> characters in my database as well as in the front end, though I am not
> sure about this. I am saying this because those characters renders fine
> when I change the character encoding option in the browser to utf-8 from
> ISO. So, I am wondering if yafi is really doing it or its the output
> feed from chnewsfeed causing the problem. I check the encoding for 
> XML(feed itself) that generates from chnewsfeed and find ISO 8859-1
> there too.

yafi was written with UTF-8 in mind. It was made for a specific project and
compatibility with different charsets was not paid by my customer. So I
did not care about those charsets.

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