Having problems with RSS feeds & external.php

[KW802]

First, please forgive any stupid questions I might ask as I'm entirely new to VB and I'm just setting up my site for the first time.

OK, my problem is with the external.php call & rss feeds.

When using the type=js setting it appears to work but when I attempt to use either type=rss or type=rss2 I get the following:

The XML page cannot be displayed
Cannot view XML input using style sheet. Please correct the error and then click the Refresh button, or try again later.
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System does not support the specified encoding. Error processing resource 'http://www.farpointstation.org/forums/external.php?type=rss&forumids=2'. Line 1, Position 34

<?xml version="1.0" encoding=""?>

Any thoughts?

[KW802]

Bueller?

[mrdatalife]

yes, it looks like the $stylevar["charset"] that is used in building the xml and rss feed is null.

i manually edited my "external.php" page and set the encoding to "ISO-8859-1".

can anyone confirm if and where the "charset" variable is being set?

[KW802]

yes, it looks like the $stylevar["charset"] that is used in building the xml and rss feed is null.

i manually edited my "external.php" page and set the encoding to "ISO-8859-1".

can anyone confirm if and where the "charset" variable is being set?

Oooohh, good catch! I'll go try that now....

[KW802]

Finally found the sucker!

Admin CP / Languages & Phrases / Language Manager / Edit Settings / HTML Character Set


The default value on my fresh VB3 install under English was blank. I inserted "ISO-8859-1" as the HTML Character Set value and everything is now running smooth! Oh, yeah!

[mrdatalife]

excellent.

[zetetic]

Great help! I just decided to enable RSS feeds and this was the first wall I ran into.

Thanks.