[Ali Erkurt]

@DJPaul Hello Paul. I’m having an RSS problem with characters. The problem is, when a new activity is published, some characters doesnt seem correctly on the feed (activity/feed) and this happens for all activities. It occurs for the Turkish characters. I’m using UTF-8 and the latest trunk of BP.

Here’s the feed url:
http://markeme.com/etkinlik/feed

How can I fix that?

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

Bumping this so I remember to look at it later.

[kino.tv]

Same problem by german Umlauts ÄÖÜß etc.
But only by

[Ali Erkurt]

OK, I fixed that by myself

Paul has a lot to do I guess… Right @DJPaul?

OK @minniwelt I’m sure you’re expecting to see the fix. Here’s the solution:

In bp-activity-templatetags.php file, line 911, you’ll see that:

$title = trim( strip_tags( html_entity_decode( utf8_encode( $content[0] ) ) ) );

What causes the corrupted characters is “utf8_encode” thing. I’m already using my site as UTF-8. So second attempt for the UTF-8 might be the problem. I defined a new function for myself and problem solved. Put this function to your theme’s functions.php file:

//feed character correction function by alierkurt.net
function rssfeedcharcorrection() {
global $activities_template;

if ( !empty( $activities_template->activity->action ) )
$content = $activities_template->activity->action;
else
$content = $activities_template->activity->content;

$content = explode( ‘<span', $content );
$title = trim( strip_tags( html_entity_decode( $content[0] ) ) );

if ( ‘:’ == substr( $title, -1 ) )
$title = substr( $title, 0, -1 );

if ( ‘activity_update’ == $activities_template->activity->type )
$title .= ‘: ‘ . strip_tags( bp_create_excerpt( $activities_template->activity->content, 15 ) );

return apply_filters( ‘rssfeedcharcorrection’, $title );
}
add_filter(‘bp_get_activity_feed_item_title’, ‘rssfeedcharcorrection’);

That’s all! And let me know if this works for you too…

Wow! I’m becoming a better developer every single day I think I’m gonna rock BP community soon…

[Ali Erkurt]

I also developed my first plugin for this issue It’s gonna be published soon I think.. It’ll be added to the Plugins directory as soon as it’s on air.

Thanks.

[Paul Wong-Gibbs]

If I remember correctly, if you call html_entity_decode() with some character format text on PHP4 (latin1?), there is a log warning, “cannot yet handle MBCS in html_entity_decode().”

You’re probably best putting this as a bug on https://trac.buddypress.org/ so that someone can investigate

[Ali Erkurt]

@minniwelt OK, you can download and activate the plugin to fix your rss issue. I fixed myself with that way. Here’s the link:

http://www.alierkurt.net/plugins/bp-rss-character-fixer.zip

[ultimateuser]

@alierkurt

great work! installed the plugin and it works! was trying to fix this problem for a while now

[danbpfr]

Please read here. There are also patches on trunk now:
https://trac.buddypress.org/ticket/2194