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 <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Hi > 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 > Justin > > > Get a free e-mail account with Hotmail. Sign-up now. > _________________________________________________________________ > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ > Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now > -- Paul Lindner -- [email protected] -- linkedin.com/in/plindner
