[BNM] Rss feed

[Charlie Wilson]

What a doughnut.

Thanks very much - that seems to be working fine. 

It's always the most obvious things that stump me!

Cheers,

Charlie 


-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Dave Phelan
Sent: 04 June 2007 15:48
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] Rss feed

Charlie,

On 6/4/07, Charlie Wilson <charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk> wrote:
> I'm trying to put an RSS feed on my website to my blog (external) and 
> am having problems with the formatting - I've got apostrophes and 
> dashes etc showing as question marks. I'm also trying to attach a CSS 
> to the feed, with no success.
>
> If anyone is interested in helping, please drop me a line on 
> charlie at perfectlywrite.co.uk.

What are you writing your blog entries in? Are you, perhaps, writing them in
word or similar, and pasting the text into blogger.com?

I suspect word is smartformatting your " quotes into 66 and 99 smartquotes,
and turning your - into em-dashes and en-dashes. Then the blogger interface
is encoding these as HTML entities, but the RSS feed 9or the feed reader,
maybe) doesn't know what the codes for these are.

A test: try typing an entry in notepade, along with quotes etc, and then see
if the RSS result is okay...

Dave Ph

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