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Proper way to translate

2009-12-17T20:09:25Z

What is the proper template-tag way to decode/encode "smart" quotes and apostrophes from RSS feeds that get translated to (I think) odd unicode characters?

E.g.: quotation marks and apostrophes that get changed to things like this: â€™s â€œ,â€ .

Comment from Mihai Bocsaru on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T20:20:16Z

That means bad encoding and it is not fixable via decoding special characters...

Comment from Mihai Bocsaru on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T20:23:52Z

So if you add inside movable type a curly quote, but on your Web page it is changed into garbage characters like the ones you've listed above I would imagine that while your movable type admin is set to the UTF-8 charset, either your template refers to ISO, or the server is imposing an ISO charset for all your site files.

You could fix both scenarios, by either editing the template and having the charset as UTF-8, or patching .htaccess and imposing the UFT-8 charset like:

Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

Comment from Culture Snob on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T20:24:19Z

Thanks. So is there a way to do it through MT outside of the normal decode/encode template-tag modifiers?

Comment from Culture Snob on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T20:33:49Z

Thanks. Changing the charset in the header through a meta tag fixed the problem.

Comment from Mihai Bocsaru on 2009-12-17

2009-12-17T21:25:48Z

You're welcome!