Unknown character ("questionmark" – �) in shortcodes

Resolved levandule
(@levandule)

9 years ago

Hi,

first thanks very much for this useful plug-in! Also, I hope that no one has posted this issue yet (I tried to check-it as much as possible).

My issue is this: some combinations of conditional shortcodes result in an unknown character mark on the page. Eg. this shortcode:
[start-date] [if-all-day] [if-multi-day] až [end-time] [/if-multi-day] [/if-all-day] [if-not-all-day] [start-time] až [if-multi-day] [end-date] [/if-multi-day] [end-time] [/if-not-all-day] [if-location]| [location] [/if-location] (http://i.imgur.com/ufJxNjp.png)
results in this text on the page: http://i.imgur.com/UVQtiEV.png (four events are listed). The id of source calendar is 3quiphracvotudhtuf7r46u848@group.calendar.google.com.

Thanks for help!

https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-calendar-events/

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Plugin Contributor Nick Young
(@nickyoung87)

9 years ago

@levandule,

Thanks for sharing and I have not heard of this issue before. Does it happen on a default theme as well?

I know why this is happening but I need to determine if it is coming from the character encoding in the plugin or if it is something with the theme.

Thanks!

Thread Starter levandule
(@levandule)

9 years ago

@nick

Thanks for a quick response. I did some experiments, and am currently not able to reproduce the error. Could it be due to a collision with some other plugins? Yesterday, we shut some down.

The closest I can get to the original error is that if I use this shortcode:
[start-date] [if-all-day] [if-multi-day] to [end-date] [/if-multi-day] [/if-all-day] [if-not-all-day] [start-time] to [if-multi-day] [end-date] [/if-multi-day] [end-time] [/if-not-all-day] [if-location]| [location] [/if-location]
the result is this page: http://petkapraha.cz/gce_feed/gcal-test-1/, where there is no space between “to” and the end time.

However, this may be a completely different issue then the original one.

Plugin Contributor Nick Young
(@nickyoung87)

9 years ago

Could it be due to a collision with some other plugins?

Yeah it’s definitely possible. What you had was a character encoding issue and if another plugin changed anything like that then it could have been that.

For your other issue I assume you have a space there but it is just not being added in the output? You could try adding an to see if that helps.

Thread Starter levandule
(@levandule)

9 years ago

I added a double space ” ” in the html and now it works.

Many thanks for the support and once more for such a great plugin!

Plugin Contributor Nick Young
(@nickyoung87)

8 years, 12 months ago

Hey glad you got it working! 🙂

Let us know if you ever have any other problems and I will be glad to help.

Thanks!

P.S. If you get a chance would you mind leaving a plugin review (if you haven’t already)? It helps a ton.

https://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/google-calendar-events#postform

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