Weird character encoding
Thanks for a great add-on!
I have a problem with character encoding though. Everything on my site is utf-8 and my custom search engine is set to utf-8 as well. However, my results look something like this "...sjon � Medieråd..." Google inserts these "·" and they show up like this "�". The really weird thing though is that if i force the character encoding to latin-1 on the entire page, "·" shows up correctly. The weird thing about this behavior is that there are norwegian letters in there as well (æ, ø, å), correctly encoded as utf-8, so if i do change the character encoding to latin-1, they don't show up correctly.
How can it be that i receive a string of letters where some have one encoding and some another?
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Low 2 Jan 2012 12:07
Hi! I think you need to fiddle a bit with the oe="" and ie="" parameters. Check out the Google docs on internationalization for this.
If you can email me your cx code, I can take a look myself. Send it to hi at gotolow dot com.
owe 2 Jan 2012 14:00
Hi, I've sent you the cx code.
Low 2 Jan 2012 14:44
Hi!
Can you try the following:
* Open up mod.low_googlesearch.php in a text editor
* Look up line #733, which should say
return html_entity_decode($str);* Replace that line with this:
* Save file and try again.
owe 2 Jan 2012 16:42
That seemed to work, except it was line #722 ;-)
Low 2 Jan 2012 20:38
Cool. Glad it worked out.