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Old 15-07-2008, 01:58 AM
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Can someone advise me on how to remove these strange characters in my feeds, in FF3 unknown characters show up and IE 7 wont even render the rss page, throws an error!?

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try this
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$feed = str_replace("’","´",$feed);
//where ’ is the cause of your problem 
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what are you using to generate the feeds ?
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try this
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 = str_replace("’","´",);
//where ’ is the cause of your problem 
That worked and i fixed the pound and euro symbols but the double quotes i can't seem to sort!?

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what are you using to generate the feeds ?
Created a php file to generate the rss pages.
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str_replace('"',""",); 
Tried that and its not working, the double quotes are showing up like there in italics!?
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did you look at the source code? have you an URL to show us?
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Did you run the last option i gave you?
you have an error in the feed as it said...
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“Cryptic will unveil the first <em>Star Trek Online</em> gameplay footage as well as details about this highly anticipated MMO at the annual <em>Star Trek Convention</em> in Las Vegas on Sunday, August 10, 2008.”
so sanitize it
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feed_variable = str_replace(array('“','"'),"&quot;",feed_variable); 
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That seems to have worked, thanks louie.
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