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April 11, 2005
MXNA 2.0 and Character Encoding
Supporting so many different languages with MXNA 2.0 has forced me to learn a great deal about character encoding, which I'm very thankful for. I have been writing US/English-centric applications for too long, and I'm very happy to now be supporting the international community. We are now aggregating 55 non-English feeds in 16 different languages, and I have about a dozen more in the queue waiting to be approved. I'd say we're adding non-English feeds at a rate of about 25 per week, at this point.
This level of support has not been easy. Unfortunately, parsing, storing, and displaying information in any language takes a fair amount of work, even with languages like ColdFusion and Java. I have fixed several encoding related bugs over the last few days, so if you have seen character encoding problems, please go back and try again. Specifically, I have fixed the following:
- When servers do not report a specific character encoding, or report the wrong encoding, MXNA can still parse the feed.
- The character encoding for the generated RSS feeds and OPML files should now be correct (utf-8) and all characters should be rendered properly.
- The character encoding for MXNA Mobile is now correct, and all characters should be rendered properly.
Everything in MXNA 2.0 should be encoded as UTF-8, and all languages and characters should be supported with no exceptions. If you see any encoding issues, please let me know so that we can continue to provide the international community with the best support possible.
Oh, and if you happen to see some non-English posts that you don't think are appropriate for MXNA, please let me know. We're counting on the community to help police and approve content.
Posted by cantrell at April 11, 2005 02:26 PM | References
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Comments
Hi All,
Thanks for Unicode support on new MXDA.
Now We have our names and entries in right format :)
Hey Ray, are you there? We need also an Unicode RSS support on BlogCFC. :)
I just made my own but I think it would be a good idea to have Unicode RSS support on BlogCFC.
Thanks again for everyone here ...
Posted by: Oguz Demirkapi at April 11, 2005 02:55 PM
Pimp, I just got the mobile version on my phone. However, upon clicking the links, it goes to a normal webpage which wasn't made to display in a phone. Is there a way to register a feed made for mobile so it goes to a mobile formatted page? What options do I have as both a content provider (my blog), and using my phone to read pages?
Posted by: JesterXL at April 11, 2005 03:09 PM
the generate RSS method already is unicode capable (the whole blog is basically). sure it's not an RSS client or aggregator? i know many of these aren't capable of handling unicode.
Posted by: PaulH at April 12, 2005 03:02 AM
christian,
i think it would really be useful if you expanded on how you handled un-hinted RSS feeds, the encoding mistakes you made, etc.
Posted by: PaulH at April 12, 2005 03:05 AM
I agree with PaulH, an article on what you learned would be of great value to the community
Posted by: Kola at April 13, 2005 05:44 AM