title with quotes " " returns "Με χαράκωσαν

Full-Text RSS
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the title of the rss once passed through fivefitlers becomes “Με χαράκωσαν οι χρυσαυγίτες”

and that happens in cases where the title contains quotes " " in greek. What is the fix for that? thanks.

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Ionnis, do you have a URL I can try out to see if I can reproduce this problem?

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i can’t give you the rss because it has changed and changes constantly and not all titles have quotes.

here is a page http://news247.gr/eidiseis/katatheseis_fwtia_htan_apofasismenoi_akomh_kai_na_afairesoyn_zwes_an_thewrousan_oti_to_thuma_htan_antipalos_toys.2433351.html

if you can take the title and pass it through the script you might reproduce it.thanks!

ioannis

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Hi Ioannis, I couldn’t reproduce this. Do you have the same trouble when you use that URL in our hosted version? http://fivefilters.org/content-only/

I did notice that double quotes in the article’s title do not appear in the Full-Text RSS result, but that’s because they do not appear in the title element in the HTML header (which is where Full-Text RSS was grabbing it from). We’ve added a site config file for this site to improve extraction and to use the article title which appears in the HTML body: https://github.com/fivefilters/ftr-site-config/blob/master/news247.gr.txt

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Thanks Keyvan,

It seems it’s not the double quotes, because i tested again on my version and quotes work…i could not test in your version it only showed me the 3 first in the rss no matter if i changed the option.

Anyway, i will keep you updated when i meet this in specific rss.Some kind of encoding problem either in the script itself or my server PHP maybe.

Thanks a lot for looking into this.

Ioannis

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Ok, no problem. Let me know if you come across the problem again.

Our free, hosted service only process up to 3 items per feed. But if it’s an issue for a certain article, you can paste the article URL in rather than the feed, and we’ll create a 1-item feed for that article.

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hi, i nailed it again on a random feed.

its title gives me 7 άλλ’ αντ’ άλλα του ΣΔΟΕ για τις 5 λίστες επωνύμων

the thing is through your site it works fine…so what could it be? any suggestions? some kind of encoding problem but where?

Ioannis

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actually when i write “its title gives me” i was seeing something like this : 0;κωσαν οι χρυσαυ&ga and then when i posted it’s normal again!!
lol what is going on…

ioannis

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i think it is the feed reader or the browser i use firefox

Ioannis

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I Ionnis, this is strange. I can’t reproduce the problem locally or on fivefilters.org. I tried on Chrome and Firefox. If it happens again, could you enable debug mode (check the debug checkbox) and send us the output. Thanks.

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hi Keyvan, it happened again, it is the third item on the feed. thanks for taking a look.

Ioannis

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Hi Ioannis, I’m afraid I can’t reproduce this. I tried checking results in Chrome and Firefox, and both look fine. If you think it might be a server issue, you could try hosting somewhere else and see if you experience the same issue. Not sure what else to suggest.

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Hi keyvan, first of all thanks a lot for looking into it.
I changed server, same thing, i’ am sure it is some kind of utf8 encoding error all the weird stuff like &epsilon &alpha, is how the encoding of utf8_general_ci? might represent the data. I actually tried to read the erroneous feed with another feed reader and the problem was gone!
it is really weird, i have utf_unicode_ci everywhere on my server should not have any problems, and if it were a script issue you would be able to reproduce it…
anyway…thanks it’s not a big deal but it happens from time to time.
take care!

Ioannis

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hi again, see for a last time if you can replicate the problem on this feed
http://koykoycook.gr/?feed=rss2

thanks!

ioannis

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Okay Keyvan MYSTERY solved! after tinkering with php.ini making sure it has charset utf8 my web server nginx has also utf8 and ofcourse mysql…nothing worked…
then I tried chrome web browser…tataaa problem gone. It was damn Firefox, and I although I had selected utf-8 it wasn’t working correctly!

ioannis

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HI Ioannis, that’s very strange. I’m glad you managed to get it working in the end. Thanks for the update.