RSS widget filters some characters

[pavelevap]

Hello, when inserting this RSS (​http://servis.idnes.cz/rss.asp?c=mfd_k) into RSS widget then some characters are removed, for example č, í, ý, etc.

[azaozz]

No patch, moving to 3.0

[dd32]

The root cause of this is SimplePie, It seems to be striping the characters instead of converting them to html entities.

Moving to future release due to no patch.

[solarissmoke]

The problem is that SimplePie tries to use mb_convert_encoding() without checking whether the encoding is supported. In this case, Windows-1250 isn't supported, so you lose all the special characters. You can check what is supported by calling mb_list_encodings().

Someone has reported the issue here: ​https://github.com/rmccue/SimplePie/issuesearch?state=open&q=encoding#issue/121 (second bit). But upstream development doesn't look very active.

[rmccue]

I'm the SimplePie maintainer, so I'll look into this and report back.

[rmccue]

Pushed up to ​https://github.com/simplepie/simplepie/commit/cce56bb6809de9301909204c40c8a4f13ec322fe

Should be find to merge into WordPress' hacked up version. ;)

[pavelevap]

SimplePie 1.2.1 in WordPress 3.4 works well for this issue!

Tested on some websites - WordPress 3.3.2 shows this problem, but 3.4 is fine.

Fixed, thank you!