rss reader can't read windows-1255 encoded feeds

[Ornani]

To reproduce, install the latest WP version, add a RSS widget with the following address (or any other windows-1255 encoded feed):
​http://www.ynet.co.il/Integration/StoryRss1854.xml

You will get only the non Hebrew characters.
It's not a problem with Hebrew because if you try it on another Hebrew feed but this time utf-8 encoded, it works great. Example: ​http://mizbala.com/?feed=rss2

This problem is not only in the widget, it's also in the fetch_feed function: ​http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/fetch_feed

And probably any other WordPress RSS fetching code.

Or maybe there is a way to specify that the source is encoded with windows-1255? I tried some stuff but it didn't work out.

[Ornani]

It's 100% a simplepie problem.

[Ornani]

Apprearentaly installing both of these plugins somehow fixed it:
​http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplepie-core/
​http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/simplepie-plugin-for-wordpress/

[Ornani]

*Apparently

[nacin]

​http://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/12528/trunk/wp-includes/class-simplepie.php

Those plugins are both very old implementations of SimplePie. If this is an issue still it should be reported upstream.

[rmccue]

That changeset is irrelevant, as although it is related to encodings, it's a different encoding.

This isn't a WordPress bug, so if it's still occurring for you, file it ​on the SimplePie issue tracker.

[nacin]

Thanks Ryan.