French caracters in external.php

[kayfi]

Hi once again,

Everything works pretty fine with my external.php file except the fact that some caracters are not displayed at all. I mean french caracters with accents like: �, �, � etc.

I've modified the following lines to match the french charset, but those caracters are still not displayed:

// set XML type and nocache headers
header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1');
header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');

// print out the page header
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>' . "\r\n";
echo '<rss version="2.0">' . "\r\n";

How can I fix it if it's possible ?
Best regards !

[seymourjames +]

Its a long time ago but I used this. It may not be the same in 4.13

// set XML type and nocache headers
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
header('Expires: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . ' GMT');
header('Cache-Control: must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0');
header('Pragma: public');

// print out the page header
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>' . "\r\n";
echo '<rss version="2.0">' . "\r\n";
echo "<channel>\r\n";

then later in the code


echo "\t\t\t".'<title>'. htmlspecialchars($listing['title']) . $seperator . unhtmlentities($price) .'</title>'."\r\n";

[kayfi]

Thanks for your answer Seymour but it did not fix the problem. Maybe due to the latest version of the file (wich is in fact the same from v4.1.2)...
Hope Eric or Larry will bring me some help !
Thanks again !

[kayfi]

Eric can you provide me some help about this bug ?
Please !

[Lhotch +]

Originally Posted by kayfi

Eric can you provide me some help about this bug ?
Please !

Its not really a bug it has to do with character encoding and applies to all RSS. Its not a 68C specific thing.

If there are sections you dont want parsed as XML surround them with cdata tags....

![CDATA[Non Xml Content Here#$%@ ]]

[seymourjames +]

Sorry - forgot I had this line in there too. The file was from 4.09

echo "\t\t\t". "<description><![CDATA[". $imDescription . "]]></description>"."\r\n";

[kayfi]

Originally Posted by seymourjames

Sorry - forgot I had this line in there too. The file was from 4.09

echo "\t\t\t". "<description><![CDATA[". $imDescription . "]]></description>"."\r\n";

That did'nt change anything !
Feel so sad !

[fendter +]

have you figured out a solution? I'm building a page for Vietnam and need the same characters as French.