non-7-bit-ascii characters in feeds are rendered as "?"
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Sat, 11/15/2008 - 06:28
trumpet
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Hi!

Unfortunatly I encounter problems when trying to publish a german RSS Service: All non 7-bit ASCII characters are displayed as question mark ("?").

I tried several different Feeds, some encoded as UTF-8 some as ISO-8859-1, but none of them works.

Examples:

IBM: http://www.ibm.com/news/de/de/index.rss

Financial Times: http://www.ftd.de/static/container/rss/ftd-rss2-300.rdf

Is this a general "known issue" that will we fixed in a future version of the software or is it just a misconfiguration of my local installation?!

Thanks for any hint or feedback.

Regards,

Peter

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Mon, 11/17/2008 - 11:30
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Hi Peter

This is currently an issue with the product, that will be fixed in the next release.

Meanwhile, you can do the following work-around to get it working.

Create a  Mashup service wrapper for your feed. In this wrapper service, use <directinvoke/> statement with feedtype attribute to invoke rss feed url i.e.,

<mashup xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jackbe.com/2008-03-01/EMMLSchema ../src/schemas/EMMLSpec.xsd"
        xmlns="http://www.jackbe.com/2008-03-01/EMMLSchema"
        name="MyFavFeed">
      <output name="resultFeed" type="document"/>

      <directinvoke endpoint="http://www.ibm.com/news/de/de/index.rss" feedtype="rss" outputvariable="resultFeed"/>
     
</mashup>

This wrapper service can be created using Wires or Mashup Studio.  Once the above service is published, you should be able to see the result with right encodings.

raj.  chief masher @ jackbe

Mon, 11/17/2008 - 12:59
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trumpet
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It works like described - thanks a lot. ;-)

Regards,

Peter