Does uTorrent support RSS feeds with UTF-8 encoding?

[chupakabra]

Does uTorrent support RSS feeds with UTF-8 encoding?

[Sanchez]

Yes.

[chupakabra]

Strange. I cannot make it to display feeds with cyrillic letters in it. uTorrent shows some garbage instead of titles. I verified the same feed with Firefox and Opera and it is displayed correctly there. Can you please suggest anything?

[Firon]

Make sure the feed is actually UTF-8, it's quite common for it to be some other encoding.

[Inf]

if its win-1251 it should work as well, but you have to swtich the system locale to russian

anyway, what is the feed ?

[Firon]

Inf: I don't think that will work for µTorrent, because the program is internally UTF-16 and is (supposed to be) unaffected by the non-unicode setting

[Inf]

System locale still used as a default for MultiByteToWideChar calls when mapping from CP_ACP (default 'ascii' codepage), and probably also used by the rest of similar API calls. So its still worth a try.

[chupakabra]

Make sure the feed is actually UTF-8, it's quite common for it to be some other encoding.

I am sure that it uses UTF-8 encoding. Firefox shows encoding as "Unicode (UTF-8)". Also it has UTF-8 specifed as document encoding:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

if its win-1251 it should work as well, but you have to swtich the system locale to russian

Yes, feeds with win-1251 encoding work properly even without switching locale. But this one uses UTF-8 and it does not work.

anyway, what is the feed ?

It is from a private tracker. I think you will be unable to access it.

[Firon]

ah, I see. Perhaps it doesn't support it properly then.

[Inf]

Indeed, it seems to be some kind of bug, i just found a UTF8 feed (non-torrent related, neither russian, but uses cyrillic charaters + UTF8) and tried to put it in utorrent. The releases list looks like a set of garbaged characters.

This is the feed, open in a browser and switch to UTF8 to see how the titles should look like:

http://alliance.maidanua.org/node/feed

Firon: can you move it to "Found Bugs" ?

[amonrei]

Same with tokyotosho. Titles with Japanese word in it won't display correctly.

[chupakabra]

I tested build 420 and it works properly with UTF-8 now. Thank you. But there are some problems still:

1. Feed using Windows-1251 encoding is now broken (it was working before).

2. Looks like uTorrent does not decode some special encoded characters. For example, here is a title from XML source:

<title>Fragma - Toca& #039;s Miracle [2005] (Music Video)</title>

uTorrent displays it as you see it (with & #039;), but Firefox shows more correct version:

Fragma - Toca's Miracle [2005] (Music Video)

I added space between & and #039; so that this sequence is not interpreted by browser.

[chupakabra]

Tested build 421: problem 1 is fixed, problem 2 is still present.

[Firon]

nevermind, I can't read

[chupakabra]

Firon, I think you don't understand me. I don't have problems with feed encoding anymore, both UTF-8 and Win-1251 are displayed correctly with build 421. The problem is that uTorrent does not decode characters which are encoded like this one: & #039; I think 039 is just a character code, in this case character is apostrophe ('). Please see example in one of my previos posts.

[Firon]

indeed, I totally misread your post. I'll mention this to ludde

[Firon]

fixed in b426

[chupakabra]

Tested build 426 and it looks like problem with xx; sequences is fixed. But there is still one more bug: uTorrent does not decode sequences like " (which should be " ), & (&)