Special characters get munged by TwitterFeed
St. John's Morning Show Puts a Cap on Homelessness
...BUT...
TwitterFeed grabs it and spits it back out as:
St. John & # 8 2 1 7 ; s Morning Show Puts a Cap on Homelessness
(I had to put spaces in between so it would come out okay.)
Yuck. It happens to other characters as well, like the double-quote.
Can this be made a priority for fixing.
The more people who report this problem, the more it gets noticed.
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Inappropriate?Could you let me know the URL of your feed that contains examples of these and I'll look into it. I've done quite a lot of work around trying to make sure posts get encoded correctly (e.g. around double-byte issues), so it's a bit of a tricky area to make changes.
Yours is certainly a special case - special characters and quotes shouldn't (and usually don't) cause a problem, so it may be related to the original encoding of your feed. As I said, let me know the URL of the feed that shows these issues, and I'll see what I can do. -
Inappropriate?I'm having the same problems with single quotes and ellipsis (...) I use these pretty frequently in my blog, so this is a bit disappointing. I just signed up for twitterfeed yesterday and the first few posts were all jumbled.
I’m disappointed
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This is happening on both of my websites, I just discovered... the same symbols are garbled when twitterfeed pulls them:
http://www.comicmix.com/rss/
http://www.mindpollution.org/feed/atom/
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