Comments on: How-to fix ruby’s FeedTools latin-1 parsing

By: kev

kev — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 11:43:47 +0000

FYI, the project I used FeedTools and this patch was just released under an Open-Source license.

By: jimbocho

jimbocho — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 06:14:53 +0000

Thanks for sharing this! It also works with RubyRSS, but I converted the descriptions manually as opposed to subclassing and fixing the original class.

By: Jeff’s Austin Blues » Blog Archive » Bug in FeedTools

Jeff’s Austin Blues » Blog Archive » Bug in FeedTools — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 23:05:25 +0000

[...] fix the problem and Googled “Latin1 conversion UTF8 Ruby”. At the top of the list was How-to fix ruby’s FeedTools latin-1 parsing. There is a bug in FeedTools, it converts numeric HTML entities under 256 to Latin1 characters [...]

By: kev

kev — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 19:00:58 +0000

BTW, a similar issue was spotted in Drupal some years ago.