[Forum] RSS Feed not showing copyright symbol correctly

[mccollin]

I have an RSS feed I want to use and its working fine except that its not showing the copyright symbol. Instead it showing the code for it

©

. Is there a way to get it to interpret this?

[Steve Machol]

Do you have a link? What is the feed?

[mccollin]

Here ya go... http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/newsb...r-studios.html

[Steve Machol]

And the feed?

Also do you have the same problem without your add-ons?

[mccollin]

rss feed

No, the addons don't affect it. Its a question of how to get ascii characters recognized in a post I guess.

[mccollin]

I am using the feed:content:encoded tag, by the way.

[mccollin]

I tried changing the charset from ISO-8859-1 to utf-8 thinking this would fix it, but there was no change. Any ideas? Its ignoring the special characters... copyright symbol being one of them.

[Steve Machol]

That exact same feed and article shows fine for me. However your display for it is highly customized. What are your RSS feed settings?

[mccollin]

Steve, you are using the feed:description tag I think, and I am using the feed:content:encoded tag in the feed description. The codes don't show up in the description.

[Steve Machol]

Okay, Ive changed that, However there are no new feeds right now to see if this changed anything. I will have to wait until there are new feeds.

[mccollin]

Try this feed... should be similar ... rss feed

[Steve Machol]

Didn't work. What are your EXACT RSS settings? I need to duplicate what you are doing in order to troubleshoot this.

[mccollin]

Here ya go... The problem is exhibited in preview mode of the feed also.

Source: xyz

{feed:content:encoded}

[url={feed:link}]More...[/url] 

[Steve Machol]

Thanks. However I don't have any news feeds for either of those so I cannot test this right now.

[mccollin]

OK, I don't think it really has anything to do with RSS... its just that the ASCII characters aren't displaying correctly in the forum. The code in the first post is html for the copyright symbol. Its not displaying the symbol, but rather the code. Can you post that in a forum enable for html and get it to display correctly?