Upcoming Events widget inserts extras spaces at line breaks
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I am having problems formatting Google icalendar entries. I am using the Upcoming Events widget set up to obtain data from a Google iCalendar. The problem is that some of the words are split with extra spaces added in them. Even though the calendar entries display correctly when shown in the calendar, they don’t appear the same when shown on my web page.
The problem appears to be due to incorrectly handling new line breaks. Google is passing the data as hex ‘0D0A20’ (CR,LF,space) but the widget is not processing it correctly. It looks like Google is using that space to indent lines in the description field. The CRLF is stripped out by the widget formatting, but the space remains and gets inserted as part of the string.
Is there a workaround for this problem? Some kind of CSS magic I can use to strip
those extra spaces out of the words? Any help would be greatly appreciated.–Tom
The website is southboudnary.com. (southboundarysingers.wordpress.com) I am using the Coraline theme and have the Premium package installed.
See below for an example and compare that data to what is shown on the web page. The entry you want to look at is titled “BoysChoirs of Aiken County Fundraising Gala”.
Here is the entry from the Google ICS file:
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART:20150417T230000Z
DTEND:20150418T010000Z
DTSTAMP:20150329T122641Z
UID:(email visible only to moderators and staff)
CREATED:20150314T003715Z
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an evening of song, youth, and celebration in sup
port of the BoysChoirs of Aiken County (BCAC)..nnThis organization is a p
roject of ours that includes three schools-based choirs called Boundary Boy
s, No Boundaries, and North Boundary, and one all-county choir called Bo
und to Sing. In all, this organization reaches over 80 boys, not just thr
ough music, but also through life skills like teamwork, discipline, dedi
cation, and hard work.nnThis fundraising gala is the first event of its
kind in honor of the BoysChoirs of Aiken County. It will be held at the Fer
mata Club on Friday, April 17, beginning at 7:00 p.m. The evening will fe
ature performances by the choirs, a silent auction, and hors d’oeuvres. T
ickets are $25, and all proceeds go directly to support the BoysChoirs of
Aiken County.
LAST-MODIFIED:20150314T003715Z
LOCATION:Fermata Club, 841 Whiskey Road, Aiken, SC 29801, United States
SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:BoysChoirs of Aiken County Fundraising Gala
TRANSP:OPAQUE
END:VEVENTAnd here is the same data dumped in hex format:
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540D0A424547494E3A564556454E540D
0A445453544152543A32303135303431
37543233303030305A0D0A4454454E44
3A323031353034313854303130303030
5A0D0A44545354414D503A3230313530
333239543132323634315A0D0A554944
3A7430316F646637716B76336C397536
753674667539746C61657340676F6F67
6C652E636F6D0D0A435245415445443A
3230313530333134543030333731355A
0D0A4445534352495054494F4E3A4A6F
696E20757320666F7220616E20657665
6E696E67206F6620736F6E675C2C2079
6F7574685C2C20616E642063656C6562
726174696F6E20696E207375700D0A20
706F7274206F662074686520426F7973
43686F697273206F662041696B656E20
436F756E7479202842434143292E2E5C
6E5C6E54686973206F7267616E697A61
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6A656374206F66206F75727320746861
7420696E636C75646573207468726565
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2D636F756E74792063686F6972206361
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2053696E672E20496E20616C6C5C2C20
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6E2072656163686573206F7665722038
3020626F79735C2C206E6F74206A7573
74207468720D0A206F756768206D7573
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726F756768206C69666520736B696C6C
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6E64206861726420776F726B2E5C6E5C
6E546869732066756E6472616973696E
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727374206576656E74206F6620697473
200D0A206B696E6420696E20686F6E6F
72206F662074686520426F797343686F
697273206F662041696B656E20436F75
6E74792E2049742077696C6C20626520
68656C6420617420746865204665720D
0A206D61746120436C7562206F6E2046
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5C2C20626567696E6E696E6720617420
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656E696E672077696C6C2066650D0A20
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6573206279207468652063686F697273
5C2C20612073696C656E742061756374
696F6E5C2C20616E6420686F72732064
E280996F6575767265732E20540D0A20
69636B65747320617265202432355C2C
20616E6420616C6C2070726F63656564
7320676F206469726563746C7920746F
20737570706F72742074686520426F79
7343686F697273206F66200D0A204169
6B656E20436F756E74792E0D0A4C4153
542D4D4F4449464945443A3230313530
333134543030333731355A0D0A4C4F43
4154494F4E3A4665726D61746120436C
75625C2C2038343120576869736B6579
20526F61645C2C2041696B656E5C2C20
53432032393830315C2C20556E697465
64205374617465730D0A53455155454E
43453A300D0A5354415455533A434F4E
4649524D45440D0A53554D4D4152593A
426F797343686F697273206F66204169
6B656E20436F756E74792046756E6472
616973696E672047616C610D0A545241
4E53503A4F50415155450D0A454E443A
564556454E540D0A(I have a screen capture of the above hex data as it appears in Edit Pad Pro
but I don’t know how to imbed that .png file here.)The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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I had exactly the same problem…for over a year…at http://www.malanat.ca.
WordPress.com people were supportive and helpful. But they did NOT fix the problem. Because the problem is with the Google iCal input feed/Wordpress.com interface.
When I abandoned Google Calendar and created my own self-hosted *.ics files the Upcoming Events widget works perfectly.
And by the way those “random” spaces are not random at all.
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