I had a similar issue back in 04/2011 with blogs that had arabic words, and till now it's not resolved, it was related UTF-8 encoding. Brett said that it may fail if the feed is not using UTF-8. In my case it was blogger which is using clearly using UTF-8.
-Tamer On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Charl van Niekerk <[email protected]>wrote: > 2012/1/2 YC <[email protected]>: > > What steps will reproduce the problem? > > 1. publish blog(blogspot) with chinese word > > 2. uses https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com as hub > > 3. write POST body into file. > > 4. file is empty if feed contains chinese word > > > > File is not empty if chinese word doesn't occur. > > > > I'm using ruby on rails. What can i do to overcome this issue? > > Sounds like you are having some type of encoding problem. Some > component in the flow of the entry (from publisher to subscriber via > the hub) is not interpreting unicode characters correctly. > > The above works on the assumption that you are using an encoding such > as UTF-8 - is that indeed the case? > > Assuming Blogger is not the problem, is the Ruby code you are using > unicode-safe? What if you try using a different publisher, such as > WordPress? >
