How about making sure the charset is set properly. I have seen this kind of thing when not setting to UTF-8. This can be a problem either on the ingesting, or when the feed is written.
On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Che Vilnonis <ch...@asitv.com> wrote: > > Nathan, the problem is that within the feed itself, the characters don't > have accents. When output to a browser, they funky chars display on screen > with odd geometric shapes like an upright rectangle. They're like odd ascii > chars that I have only seen a few time before. In the end, I can't insert > them into the MySQL db. > > Ché > > -----Original Message----- > > > How about deAccent() ? > http://cflib.org/udf/deAccent > > > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Che Vilnonis <ch...@asitv.com> wrote: > > > > > Good morning. Occasionally when parsing a RSS feed, I get RSS data I > > cannot parse. Click for screenshot below (text highlighted in green). > > In this example, Montreal should return "Montréal" but does not. What > > regex could I use to remove or replace such odd characters? > > > > http://www.asitv.com/images/_funkychar.jpg > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:355763 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
