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Parse full content failed to handle French characters (e.g. developpez.com) #1094
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This error caused the app to crash
This error is reproducible
Which category best fits this error?
User Interface
App version
0.14.2 and olders
Reproduction steps
1.Describe the bug :
When parsing and displaying articles https://www.developpez.com/rss.php—French special characters (e.g., é, è, ç, à, etc.) are not rendered correctly. Instead, they appear as encoding artifacts like:
Perplexity a lanc� son nouvel abonnement Max, factur� 200 dollars par mois, et d�sormais disponible sur iOS et sur le Web...
This issue negatively affects readability and the user experience for French content.
Observe that French characters (accents and special letters) appear as corrupted or misencoded symbols (e.g., �).
3.Expected behavior :
French characters should be displayed correctly as UTF-8 or as defined by the feed encoding, for example:
Perplexity a lancé son nouvel abonnement Max, facturé 200 dollars par mois, et désormais disponible sur iOS et sur le Web...
4. Possible cause :
The issue may be due to incorrect or missing handling of character encoding (e.g., assuming UTF-8 without checking the feed's declared encoding). The feed may declare ISO-8859-1 or Windows-1252, which needs to be properly respected when parsing content.
changed the title [-]Incorrect display of French special characters in some RSS feeds (e.g. developpez.com)[/-][+]Parse full content failed to handle French characters (e.g. developpez.com)[/+]on Jul 6, 2025
@heberjeur if you know the admin in developpez.com, please contact them or point them to this issue. they return a wrong content-type for certain pages
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heberjeur commentedon Jul 6, 2025
[-]Incorrect display of French special characters in some RSS feeds (e.g. developpez.com)[/-][+]Parse full content failed to handle French characters (e.g. developpez.com)[/+]Lampotrias commentedon Jul 7, 2025
I also can't reproduce it with this specific news item from the RSS feed.
JunkFood02 commentedon Jul 7, 2025
it seems that developpez.com is using iso-8859-1 charset instead of utf-8 while their rss feed being utf-8
JunkFood02 commentedon Jul 7, 2025
@heberjeur if you know the admin in developpez.com, please contact them or point them to this issue. they return a wrong
content-typefor certain pagesshould be
text/html; charset=iso-8859-1