Re: Gnome FTP XML feed

From: Germán Poó Caamaño <gpoo ubiobio cl>
To: Eugenia Loli-Queru <eugenia osnews com>
Cc: marketing list <marketing-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Gnome FTP XML feed
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:56:40 -0400

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 12:33 -0700, Eugenia Loli-Queru wrote:
> XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
> Location: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/LATEST.xml
> Line Number 258, Column 17:        * Matic %GŽ% gur (sl)&lt;br&gt;
> 
> This happens at least 2-3 times a month, every month. A developer is 
> uploading a NEWS file and the gnome RSS creator script is not doing a 
> utf8_encode() (or similar) and so these non-english characters are getting 
> into the XML file and then the feed doesn't validate anymore. And that 
> breaks gnomefiles and other sites that use the feed...
> Any chance someone could pre-utf8_encode the NEWS and CHANGELOG files before 
> adding them to the Gnome XML feed?

Hmmm... I see this happens because of copying/pasting the name of
translators/contributors, not always in UTF-8.

Anyway, I guess gnome-infrastructure mailing list is better suited for
this kind of issues.

Regards,

-- 
Germán Poó-Caamaño
http://www.ubiobio.cl/~gpoo/
Concepción - Chile

References:
- Gnome FTP XML feed
  - From: Eugenia Loli-Queru

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