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[Asiaplay]

Ophelia,

I guess that is as your X-Cart store uses ISO-8529 (ascii) and your wordpress uses UTF-8... perhaps Dmitry has a quick fix - but real fix is the same as for languages - change your X-Cart over to use full UTF-8 - search forums for the answer on how to do that if you really want to.

Cheers - Asiaplay

[anandat]

Originally Posted by Asiaplay

Ophelia,

I guess that is as your X-Cart store uses ISO-8529 (ascii) and your wordpress uses UTF-8... perhaps Dmitry has a quick fix - but real fix is the same as for languages - change your X-Cart over to use full UTF-8 - search forums for the answer on how to do that if you really want to.

Cheers - Asiaplay

I am also getting the similar problem.
It shows UTF- 8 (unicode) characters on x-cart as:

Ю╙├ Ю╙╣Ю╙╬Ю╙╟Ю╚█Ю╙╓Ю╙╬Ю ╙╦Ю╙┌Ю╙≈Ю╚█Ю╙╟Ю╙╧ Ю╙╗Ю╚─ Ю╙╓Ю╙╝Ю╙╬Ю╙╝ Ю╙╣Ю╙╬Ю╙╟Ю╚█Ю╙╓Ю╙╬Ю ╙⌠Ю╙╗Ю╙╬ Ю╙∙Ю╚┤Ю╙╗Ю╚█Ю╙╕Ю╚█Ю ╙╟ Ю╙╝Ю╙╬Ю╙┌ Ю╙╦Ю╚█Ю╙╓Ю╚█Ю╙╟Ю╚─ Ю╙⌡Ю╚┤. Ю╙├Ю╙╙Ю╙ёЮ╚┤ Ю╙╓Ю╚█Ю╙╞Ю╙╬...


how to change x-cart's ISO-8529 (ascii) to UTF-8 ?

Following is nysql database settings in phpmyadmin shows:

MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode (utf
MySQL connection collation: UTF-8 Unicode _ci

Please help

-Anand

[Asiaplay]

Hi Anandat,

Sorry for slow reply - I am travelling at the moment....

See this post - http://forum.x-cart.com/showpost.php?p=215307&postcount=8
Feel free to private message me if you have any questions.

Cheers - Asiaplay

[Dmitri]

Hello

We are just working on a Pro version of the mod, that will
- be easy to configure via easy to use interface
- be compatible with 4.1.x and 4.2.x
- support more RSS feed formats
- support different char set encoding configurations
- more...

what's not know is:
- cost (there might be free version available)
- additional functionality

[fyjpm]

Originally Posted by Asiaplay

Ophelia,

I guess that is as your X-Cart store uses ISO-8529 (ascii) and your wordpress uses UTF-8... perhaps Dmitry has a quick fix - but real fix is the same as for languages - change your X-Cart over to use full UTF-8 - search forums for the answer on how to do that if you really want to.

Cheers - Asiaplay

in rss.blog.php use the function below for title & description:

iconv("UTF-8", "CP1252", $data)

Here's what the new function will look like:

    # 
    # this function will be called everytime there is a string between two tags
    # 
    function characterData($parser, $data){
        global $rssblog_globals;
        if($rssblog_globals[inside_item]){
            switch($rssblog_globals[current_tag]){
                case "TITLE": 
                $rssblog_globals[current_title] .= iconv("UTF-8", "CP1252", $data);
                break; 
                case "DESCRIPTION":
                $rssblog_globals[current_description] .= iconv("UTF-8", "CP1252", $data);
                break; 
                case "LINK": 
                $rssblog_globals[current_link] .= $data; 
                break;
            } 
        } 
        elseif($rssblog_globals[inside_image]){
        } 
        elseif($rssblog_globals[inside_channel]){ 
            switch($rssblog_globals[current_tag]){
                case "TITLE":
                $rssblog_globals[channel_title] .= $data;
                break; 
            }
        } 
    } 

[OpheliaPayne]

One thing to note.. if you include this... it will try to load it before the store, so if there is any kind of delay on your site, high server load, etc., it's going to lag your store. We ran into this issue during a sale that had high server load and it took 2 days to pinpoint exactly what was causing the issue via watching the server logs. Once we removed the code, the issues stopped.

[Dmitri]

Originally Posted by OpheliaPayne

One thing to note.. if you include this... it will try to load it before the store, so if there is any kind of delay on your site, high server load, etc., it's going to lag your store. We ran into this issue during a sale that had high server load and it took 2 days to pinpoint exactly what was causing the issue via watching the server logs. Once we removed the code, the issues stopped.

We are working on update that would cache the feed, thus eliminating this issue

[maximillian]

I've just installed this free mod and it works great.
Thank you!
Looking forward to the upgraded verison

[Dmitri]

Originally Posted by maximillian

I've just installed this free mod and it works great.
Thank you!
Looking forward to the upgraded verison

thanks

[kgoel]

Has anyone tried this MOD on 4.3 version of X-cart ?