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Topic: Wrong encoding for RSS feed

Posted By: maffo999
Subject: Wrong encoding for RSS feed
Date Posted: April 02 2023 at 01:50

I am noticing many issues with non-ASCII characters not displaying correctly in any of this website RSS feeds.

After digging further, I see that the RSS feed is encoded ISO-8859-1 and thus many accented characters (and characters outside of Latin alphabet) get replaced by a � glyph making the entry in the feed extremely hard to read.

Would it be possible to provide the RSS feeds with proper UTF-8 encoding, considering this is a rather easy and quick fix?

For reference, it should be just matter of changing the encoding at XML level to be UTF-8 as per the examples on https://www.w3schools.com/XML/xml_rss.asp" rel="nofollow - XML RSS (w3schools.com) .

Thanks for the consideration.