PolarBlog RSS Feed Issue
Yesterday I was informed of a RSS encoding problem when you set your encoding to anything other than ISO-8859-1. This appears to be being caused by the third-party FeedCreator class ignoring the user setting and always using the default setting. Additionally I believe I've found a minor content type problem, but that's a much lesser concern.
That's the bad news. The good news it that I believe I've solved the problem. This may go out a bug fix release this coming week, but at the moment I know of only one use that was having an issue with this so my inclination is to sit on it and instead work on the next release. I know there are other international users, so if you use RSS and are having feed encoding problems contact me (kevinp AT polarlava.com) and I can send you the fix directly. As I write this I've sent this to the user who was having the problem, but he has not confirmed that this fixes this issue —I believe it does.
If there are enough request for it I will package up a release and send it out.
lou said:
If there is a bug in feedcreator, have you checked out http://blog.mypapit.net/2005/11/using-feedcreator-to-generate-atom-10-feeds.html ?It fixed many of the issues. If the bug is not fixed in that release consider posting the problem on that blog
Kevin said:
Thanks for the info. I've reported the problem to the developer of FeedCreator as well as fixing it in the version I'm using which contains a couple of other minor bug fixes. At this time I have no need or desire to switch to yet another branched version. Particularly being the focus is on better support for ATOM feeds. I currently only support RSS2.0 and don't see that changing in the immediate future. Unless support for FeedCreator has completely stopped, I think it would be better for everyone if they were to send their changes to the original author for inclusion instead of branching it. But again, thanks for the info. It may prove useful in the future. :)