Swedish characters in id3 artist field makes author tag in podcast feed empty.

Workaround that I got working:

Add following to the top of ffpc_row_plugin_podcast.inc

function unhtmlspecialchars($string)
{
 	$string = str_replace ( 'å', 'å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Å', 'Å', $string ); 
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ä', 'ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ä', 'Ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ö', 'ö', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ö', 'Ö', $string ); 	 	
 	$string = str_replace ( 'å', 'å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Å', 'Å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ä', 'ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ä', 'Ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ö', 'ö', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ö', 'Ö', $string );   
 	return $string;
}

Search for: 

          'value' => $info['tags_html']['id3v2']['artist'][0],

and replace the line with:

          'value' => unhtmlspecialchars($info['tags_html']['id3v2']['artist'][0]),

Maybe there is an better solution?

Comments

Nimo’s picture

Nimo commented

Typo. You should search for $info['tags'] and replace with $info['tags_html'].

Ie:

Search for:

          'value' => $info['tags']['id3v2']['artist'][0],

Maybe there is an better solution?

and replace the line with:

          'value' => unhtmlspecialchars($info['tags_html']['id3v2']['artist'][0]),

Correct function to add: 

function unhtmlspecialchars($string)
{
 	$string = str_replace ( 'å', 'å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Å', 'Å', $string ); 
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ä', 'ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ä', 'Ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ö', 'ö', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ö', 'Ö', $string ); 	 	
 	$string = str_replace ( 'å', 'å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Å', 'Å', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ä', 'ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ä', 'Ä', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'ö', 'ö', $string );
 	$string = str_replace ( 'Ö', 'Ö', $string );   
 	return $string;
}

And for some reason my html-entities above got lost and was transformed into real characters - how to write them correctly?
(In the meanwhile replace & with &)

mfer’s picture

mfer commented
Status: Active » Needs work

This definitely needs work. The code listed here isn't really compatible with internationalization. This may be an issue with getID3 or our use of it.

mfer’s picture

mfer commented
Version: 6.x-0.7 » 6.x-2.x-dev
renoproc’s picture

renoproc commented

Oh ! Didn't see this issue before... perhaps the swedish characters problems is the same as mine :
http://drupal.org/node/822584