Seems that the _IG_FetchContent call no longer automatically translate all html / xml content to utf-8, as it used to.
The only place that they still works is now the preview tab in the Google Gadget Editor On Jun 10, 11:45 pm, ty <[email protected]> wrote: > Out of the blue, we started to experience a number of problems with > fetching external content on our type-html gadgets that have been > working OK in production for the last 6+ months. Issue is specific to > iGoogle v2, everything seems to be fine on other google domains where > v2 is still not introduced. We have the issue both in the Sandbox and > google.com in production > > We fetch external content with _IG_FetchContent from remote pages > where the remote page's charset declaration is "windows-1254". The > code we use is as follows: > > 'Fetch External Content > <script> > function fetchURL() { > var url = "http://www.example.com/page.php";; > _IG_FetchContent(url, function(responseText) { > _gel('content_div').innerHTML = responseText; > }, { refreshInterval: (60 * 3) }); > } > <script> > > 'Show External Content > <div id="content_div"></div> > > The gadget used to be able to fetch and display all content in proper > encoding. Meanining, the gadget was looking exactly the way that the > page.php was looking when viewed stand-one on a browser. > > However, now the gadgets do not seem to honor the encoding set for the > remote page.php and display content in their raw, ascii form (e.g. > while the page.php's character set is set to display "þ" as "ş", the > gadget now displays "þ"). > > Adding "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; > charset=windows-1254">" to the gadget itself doesn't seem to help. > > No recent changes on our part and this issue effects all of our > gadgets so wondering if something else is going on with the API > > Happy to post a link for one of the affected xml's if that helps. > > Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
