xhr Rss Feed - Special Characters

Hi..

From the KitchenSink project I used the xhr xml example. I have a RSS feed (including special danish characters æøå): http://snowboard.riders.dk/feed/ which Im trying to show in the android browser.

I have developed several native applications in xcode for the iPhone including feeds, so I have experience with this.

I have tried many methods to show the feed correctly, without succes.

convert feed (html entities)
custom html header in webview
looked at titanium webview documentation

How do I show special characters in the Android browser?

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No help?
— answered September 14th 2010 by Mads Møller
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- As an alternative approach, would it be possible to change the encoding of the Android browser?
  
  — commented September 16th 2010 by Mads Møller
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Look this:

http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/40941/xhr-xml-codification-issue

I hope it work for you!
— answered September 14th 2010 by Esteban Fernandez
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- I tried that, but I do not know how to use it with the xhr rss example…
  Your link example explains this:
  var doc = Ti.XML.parseString(encodeXMLString(this.responseText)).documentElement;
  
  but I have:
  var doc = this.responseXML.documentElement;
  var items = doc.getElementsByTagName("item");
  
  from here:
  http://github.com/appcelerator/KitchenSink/blob/master/KitchenSink/Resources/examples/xml_rss.js
  
  Could you help me, how to do this?
  
  — commented September 14th 2010 by Mads Møller
- Hi, I wrote that example in that page.
  You can get the response of the server both this way:
  var xml = this.responseXML;
  and this way:
  var xml = Ti.XML.parseString(this.responseText);
  The two are identical.
  
  So I only inserted the encodeXMLString function before the DOM parsing. After the doc=… code it is the same.
  
  — commented September 15th 2010 by Adam Wallner
- Hi Adam
  I tried your approach, but does not work for me.
  this is my code: http://pastie.org/1163988 does it work in your end?
  
  — commented September 16th 2010 by Mads Møller
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Hi, some time ago I posted a similar question here: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/56091/xml-parser-unable-to-correctly-handle-numeric-entities-android.

It seems that the xml parser in Titanium on Android is somewhat buggy.

Here: http://gist.github.com/580493 you can find the code I'm using right now to overcome the problem.

You can use the function in the following way:
```
var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();

xhr.onload = function(){
   var xmlStr = this.responseText;
   var xmlDoc = Ti.XML.parseString(mgDecodeHTMLEntities(xmlStr)));

   //perform usual processing
});

//[...]
```
I hope it will help!
— answered September 15th 2010 by Olivier Morandi
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- Thanks for the reply.. I guess your example works for decoding html.
  I need a "æ" to be "æ", so I need a encoder, right?
  
  — commented September 16th 2010 by Mads Møller
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