Hi all,
Apologies I’m not sure how to phrase this, however I’m using a PHP RSS script to pull in data from elsewhere.
However, the content that’s being pulled often include characters that the browser can’t determine, and is displayed like � and ?.
Is there anyway around this?
Many thanks for any advice 
Either ensure that your pipeline can handle UTF-8, or down-convert UTF-8 to something that you can handle, such as ISO-8859-1
Thanks for your reply, how do I down-convert?
At the utf8_decode page you will find a function called utf2html()
Paul,
Unfortunately I don’t know php (yet) and this kind of baffles me - is there an easy way of editing the PHP script to remove any html characters that are included in the RSS feed?
Many thanks
Yes, run the above-mentioned function just before the content gets echo’d to the page.
Before:
echo $rssContent;
After:
function utf2html (&$str) {
...
}
utf2html($rssContent);
echo $rssContent;