Re: Encoding problem with metadata service

[Paul Lindner <pl...@linkedin.com>]

This might be an issue with the metadata service, which is a simple servlet
that does not do much for character encoding.

For something more modern have a look at GadgetsHandler.java and the
metadata.get call.


On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Justin Wyllie
<ju...@hotmail.co.uk>wrote:

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> This may be a very silly question but...
> I have two gadgets one with an XML declaration as UTF-8 and the other as
> iso-8859-1. Both have the ModulePreds title set to Iñtërnâtiônàlizætiøn.
> Both files are correctly saved - as UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 respectively.
> In the case of the the UTF-8 one the metadata service returns the title
> with all the non-asci characters encoded as html unicode points e.g. \u00f8.
> In the case of the iso-88590-1 the metadata service returns Itrntinliztin -
> that is the title with the non-asci characters simply stripped out.
> Does this mean that Shindig / the Gadgets spec simply does not support
> character encodings other than UTF-8? The google docs say "Gadgets are
> specified in XML. The first line is the standard way to start an XML file."
> - giving a UTF-8 example. But this does not answer the question.
> Thanks
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