Greetings,
I use Safari under OS X 10.4.6 to access my Roller blog at
www.jroller.com using, well, whatever version of Roller they're using
today ;-)
I'd like to be able to use Unicode characters in the titles of my
blog entries. If I use OS X's built in Chinese input method editor
to enter a Chinese character in an entry title via the Edit Entry
screen I'll see the correct character show up in the entry listing
(to the right of the Edit Entry screen under Recent Entries) but all
I get is a '?' when I view the blog.
If I try entering an HTML entity like "胖" into the title then
I see those seven characters under Recent Entries, but I do see the
correct single (Chinese) character when I view the blog. The
correct character also shows up in the RSS feed when viewed via
Safari. The trouble comes when I try to view the new entry via the
front page of the JRoller website - it displays "胖" explicitly.
Sure, I could just blame JRoller ;-) Instead I pointed
feedvalidator.org at my RSS feed and validated it - they flagged the
"胖" and gave a warning that the title should not contain
HTML and that I shouldn't be surprised if some viewers strip the
characters or leave them there - like I saw at JRoller.
I've seen Roller blogs that contain entries with titles containing
explicit Unicode characters - I've check out their RSS source (using
Safari's View:View Source command). Their RSS feed source, like
mine, contains charset="UTF-8", so that makes sense.
So what am I doing wrong? It looks like there's no way for me to
input Unicode via the Chinese input method using the existing web-
based Roller interface that JRoller has configured. Is it a
configuration issue? Or do I need to use an alternative method of
posting entries that uses the Blogger or MetaWeblog APIs?
I didn't find anything useful on the Roller user guides and wiki
about this... Any suggestions on where to turn?
谢谢!
- Using Unicode in entry title? Sean Montgomery
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