RSS and international characters problem

[aeklo]

Since some versions ago of HSTouch, my RSS feeds containing international characters became garbled. It had worked perfectly until then.
Anyone have a solution to this? Have HS changed something that I might correct?
See attached image for example.

Appreciate any tips

[Rupp]

This was fixed in the latest release of the software. Are you running the latest versions of the clients and HSTouch plugin?

[aeklo]

Yes, I believe so:
HSTouch Editor: 1.0.0.72
HSTouch App for iPhone: 2.10
HSTouch Server: 1.0.0.58
HSTouch iPhone: 1.0.0.2

When adding the RSS feed in HSTouch editor, I can see the same character errors when getting the data.
The RSS feed works perfectly in any other RSS reader.

[jfla]

Hi,

i have the same problem. BUT only with WinXP!!!!.

On my tablet ACER-A500, with the last version for android , it's correct.

ONLY FALSE on WIN XP.

i have the last version of plugin , and Hstouch.

Jean-Francois

[aeklo]

This is equal in both the editor and the clients in my case. Also the RSS editor indicates the same errors - see attached image.
Could this have something to do with localization settings in Windows?
Running Windows 7 editor side.

Also, the screendump contains the full URL to the current feed, should anyone else want to try

[sigbjorn]

I have the same problem using the latest version of the designer and the client. Tried to deploy to Android, Windows XP and iOS, but they all displays wrong encoding.

[thecicred]

i Have then same, with all rrs ...

[aeklo]

I managed a partial solution by creating a PHP parsing script.
The RSS encoding must be ISO-8859-1, and that was my problem.

The problem still remains on my iPod Touch which is unable to run the latest clients. This used to work, and must be a change made in the plugin or designer.
I guess HS won't be much of a help on that one, since the iPod can't update to the latest version.

[Guest]

international fonts/characters

I have similar problems with international characters

I'm running
HSTouch Editor: 1.0.0.73
HSTouch App for iPhone: 2.10
HSTouch Server: 1.0.0.60
HSTouch iPhone: 1.0.0.2

any solution?

aeklo do you mind sharing your PHP scrip
any help greatly appreciate, anyone?

[kbogstad]

Same problem here

Hi, I have been struggling a lot with this too!
The strange characters appears both in the Designer, in the Windows client and on my Android clients.
I'm running:
HSPRO 2.5.0.60
Designer: 1.0.73
Android: 1.0.35

[Mario from Spain]

Same here.

Nobody has a fix?

I'm running:

HSPRO 2.5.0.52
HS Touch Designer: 1.0.73

[gottlieb78]

+1

[aeklo]

I managed a partial solution by creating a PHP parsing script.
The RSS encoding must be ISO-8859-1, and that was my problem.

The problem still remains on my iPod Touch which is unable to run the latest clients. This used to work, and must be a change made in the plugin or designer.
I guess HS won't be much of a help on that one, since the iPod can't update to the latest version.

I'm sorry this took so long, but here is my script that parses UTF8 to ISO:

<?php
  $curl_handle=curl_init();
  curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.yourweburl.com/yourfeed.rss' );
  curl_setopt( $curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
  $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle);
  curl_close($curl_handle);
  $charset = "ISO 8859-1";
  $buffer = str_replace("utf-8", $charset, $buffer);
  print utf8_decode($buffer);
?>

[Guest]

Did anyone find a way to use international/accented characters in RSS feeds/HStouch without the use of a script?
Or is this another HStouch bug/unsupported feature?

RSS feed: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/rss/4159

Thanks!