Appearance of RSS-Titels

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  gruebler · Member · Jul 7, 2009 at 4:25 pm

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  I’m using wordpress.com to host a blog in German (gruebelei.de) and I got a problem with RSS feeds that have mutated vowels (“Umlaute”) in their title. The RSS-Widget seems to be unable to interpret these characters. I doublechecked with the authors of the feeds (one is a wordpress.org blog) and they say their feeds match UTF-8. There’s no problem with these feeds in other RSS-readers, only in wordpress’ RSS widget.

  Any ideas how to solve that problem?

  The feeds I in the widget are:
  http://www.schoenen-dunk.de/news.rss
  http://waskommtnachdirk.de/feed/

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 7, 2009 at 4:42 pm

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  Send this directly into support at http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ so they can take a look at it and make adjustments as necessary.

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  gruebler · Member · Jul 8, 2009 at 3:47 pm

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  not resolved but support offered a perfect workaroud: just enter a custom title in the widget.

  (I shuold think definitely think before bothering support…)

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  thesacredpath · Member · Jul 8, 2009 at 3:48 pm

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  Thanks for posting the workaround. I hadn’t thought of that either so you are not alone.