Problems with special characters

[mataka80]

Hi

At first thanks for nice api to identify movies.

I have problem with special characters, to me it seems that there is some kind of bug or I miss something.

When i get movie data by using GetIMDBMovieDetails method ä and ö characters are not shown correctly.

E.g. using imdb id 0890882 I get result containing title "Miehen ty&# 195;&# 182;" which converts to "Miehen työ" not to "Miehen työ" what it should be.

When listing subtitles on web site those characters are shown correctly and also for example doing:
http://www.opensubtitles.org/en/search/ ... /simplexml

returns list of subtitle search where those characters are shown correctly and directly as utf8 not as encoded.

By the way if I directly go to imdb and check web page source ö is encoded as &# 246;

Sorry about spaces in character entities I didn't know how to otherwise force forum to show codes instead changing those to actual characters.

[oss]

thanks for reporting this problem, I have to look on it. Problem is simple, I use perl module for parsing IMDB pages, then export to XML, import back to PHP and working with that...

I hate those encodings, but if it works good in XML, there will be some other error...

[Cougar_]

"Miehen työ" not to "Miehen työ"

The two strings are the same, first is encoded with UTF-8 and second is ASCII with codepage used by your language. So, just convert him.

[mataka80]

The two strings are the same, first is encoded with UTF-8 and second is ASCII with codepage used by your language. So, just convert him.

Even if i could do such a hack and convert those on client side I think it would be nicer to return correct response from server. I mean return response containing plain utf-8 without entity character references or then correct entity reference for those characters. Now it seems like content is handled as non utf-8 (utf-8 character is interpreted like two characters) and those are converted then to character entity references and returned as response.