Posted 5 years ago #
By itself, this link displays everything correctly.
When displaying that feed through WordPress, however, all the German/French characters (like "é", "ä", "ö" etc.) show up as "?". Under WordPress "Options" -> "Reading" I have "Encoding for pages and feeds" set to "UTF-8". Why is this not working properly? What can I do to fix this problem?
Because the site at the first link you gave above is encoded in western (iso-8859-1).
Encoding mismatch...
Posted 5 years ago #
Hmm, under Options->Reading I changed the encoding to "westerniso-8859-1", which slightly messed up my existing entries (only post titles), but nothing changed for this WordPress page (it's now back to UTF-8). Is there a way around this problem or would it only work if this page would be encoded in UTF-8?
Posted 5 years ago #
I experienced the same problem when I uploaded a collection of recipes to my blog. What ultimately resolved the problem for me was to save the php files as UTF-8, as opposed to the normal ANSI format in Notepad. Don't know if this will help you, but as my problem was with displaying French spellings of words, with accented letter, and yours seems to be the same. It also helped resolve another problem of other characters being displayed in spaces between words.
@rajaman,
No, you ca NOT change arbitrarily your encoding - if the previous posts were written with a different encoding.
Which means, if your blog was written in utf-8, do NOT chnage the encoding!
The problem is with that other site's encoding: that's the one that is different, and you, honestly, cannot do anything about it.
Posted 5 years ago #
Darn. Oh well, at least I know not to waste any more time trying to solve the problem. Thank you both for your assistance. I will consider this topic as resolved now.
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