incomplete import rss in spanish

  • I am trying to convert from an old phpnuke to wordpress using RSS import for my news items. I have done this successfully for an english language site, but the spanish is failing miserably because post content and categories are cut off at the first diacritic (á, ñ, ó etc). Funny – the post title seems to work fine.

    The RSS XML item xml looks like this:

    <item>
    <title>Cuatro diáconos más</title>
    <link>https://www.famvin.org/es/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2066</link&gt;
    <description><p align="justify">En Brasil, en la provincia brasileña de la C.M. fueron ordenados cuatro nuevos diáconos y además este mes se incorporará un nuevo cohermano. Para alegría de la Iglesia, de la Congregación y de los más pobres. </description>
    <pubDate>2007-11-04 12:35:03</pubDate>
    <category><Font size=2>Congregación de la M.</Font</category>
    </item>

    and the resulting post looks like this:

    Cuatro diáconos más
    Noviembre 4th, 2007

    En Brasil, en la provincia brasile

    Posted in Congregaci | Edit | No Comments ?

    —

    Any ideas? hints?

    I tried loading without the UTF-8 on the database; then I get the full post, but I get ? instead of the non-english characters.

    I’m tearing my hair out –

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  • Thread Starter nicollb

    (@nicollb)

    I looked into the rss import module – there are 2 differences I can see between the title field (which works) and the category and post_content (which fail):

    Title is Text; the other 2 are Longtext;

    Title is not decoded before it is written to the database; the other 2 are.

    Feed displays find in my browser – diacritics and all.

    Thread Starter nicollb

    (@nicollb)

    Just in case anyone else has to do battle with utf8 encoding:

    The issue was resolved by taking the RSS feed for the supplying application and passing the text thru utf8_encode (in the php script that created the RSS feed). That finally replaced the offending characters with ones that would load into the database using the RSS import script.

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