Correcting unicode in the title

About: Burningbird

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the special character in the title is not comming through correctly in the display.
Yet, note, if i leave it alone, it will be expressed correctly in the feeds.
The character is a "& raquo ;" without the spaces, of course.
If you type in exactly what is in the title of the document subject URL ... that is type in the unicode sequences, then the characters are displayed correctly
When they are taken from the fastblogit button, see 3501, then end up scredwed up.
the comments in the php manual about urldecode are very informative regarding this bug.

The biggest problem has just been solved. Thanks to this comment.

source: Escape from Atamyrat
(note in order for the Unicode values to display correctly on a generated HMTL page - the meta command <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> needs to be included in the page

With no other modifications whatsoever all i did was change the meta http-equiv content on the river and rooms and the /add screen to utf-8 and now everything seems to work

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It is still screwed up in the atom1.0 feed, but that is another problem.

Also every place where i mutated the special characters manually to make them appear correctly, are now going to be comming out bad ... see burningbird ... perhaps i will make a global fix of the database to make these come out correctly.

Tags

feeds
utf-8
character encoding
unicode

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