When your blog is iso-8859-1 and your RSS widget takes information from an UTF-8 blog, the characters in your page can become garbled. The reverse is also true (your blog is UTF-8 and the RSS'd blog is ISO-8859-1). Here's my proposal for wp-includes/rss.php (around line 62):
$this->parser = $parser;
#MODIFICATIONS BEGIN
switch( @strtoupper(get_option('blog_charset')) )
{
case 'UTF-8':
xml_parser_set_option( $this->parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'UTF-8' );
break;
case 'ISO-8859-1':
xml_parser_set_option( $this->parser, XML_OPTION_TARGET_ENCODING, 'ISO-8859-1' );
break;
}
#MODIFICATIONS END
# pass in parser, and a reference to this object
# setup handlers
#
xml_set_object( $this->parser, $this );
xml_set_element_handler($this->parser,
This would handle only iso-8859-1 to utf-8 and vice-versa, but most western blogs use one of these two encodings. Handling a percentage of the cases is better than none at all, I think. :)
