By nelliza on

Please help me! Cannot figure this issue for few days already.

Drupal 4.5.2 with no modifications. Ukrainian language. Default charset not changed - UTF-8

Just in case the site in question is http://alliance.maidanua.org/

Cannot read valid RSS feed in Ukrainian (charset-1251) into drupal
http://feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fmaidanua.org%2Finclu...

As well is another valid feed in Russian (UTF-8)
http://www.livejournal.com/users/alexsun/data/rss

warning: xml_parse(): supplied argument is not a valid XML Parser resource in modules/aggregator.module on line 463.

English laugnage feeds are read ok. For example Slashdot feed.

Thanks in advance!

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Steven’s picture

Steven commented

Drupal should be able to handle Windows-1251, if you have iconv/recode/mbstring support in your PHP installation. If you don't, then you should get a watchdog warning if you try to aggregate such a feed.

The UTF-8 feed should work regardless. I'm not sure what the problem is, but if the problem was encoding-related, you'd really get another error message altogether.

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nelliza commented

There is properly working install of drupal 4.4.2 on same server (same apache, same php, same mysql) that reads same feeds without any problems.

Maybe I should submit bug report? Not sure if I don't miss something obvious still...

aliak’s picture

aliak commented

you could try running the feed through http://feedvalidator.org - there's probably a character it doesn't like. this should highlight it for you

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aliak commented

oh sorry! just re-read your message. you've already done this. oops

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nelliza commented

UTF-8 feed started working with no changes, probably remote site was down or something. Sorry for alert

1251 feed still does not work. I recompiled php with mbstring and got new error message when trying to read this feed

no element found at line 1

So I have mbstring and iconv enabled, I cannot add recode since I need imap support (see http://us3.php.net/manual/en/ref.recode.php )

Any other suggestions?

Looks I have to convert 1251 feed to UTF before importing to drupal?