Character set for news fed text '

[huskernut0878]

Searched for this but I’m too new to know if I found anything. My news feed from fox news will not display an apostrophe character. If the word was Bob’s it shows Bob's. I have no special configuration going to show you. How do I fix this?

[huskernut0878]

@huskernut0878 well that didn’t work. It displays Bob ( the code for an apostrophe ) s

[sdetweil]

@huskernut0878 you could try to change the character encoding
see
https://docs.magicmirror.builders/modules/newsfeed.html#configuration-options

[huskernut0878]

@sdetweil thank you, that did not make a difference.

[sdetweil]

@huskernut0878 there is a similar issue open

https://github.com/MichMich/MagicMirror/issues/2712

the possible fix seems to open a big security exposure

[J_Joe]

@huskernut0878
I had the same frustrating issue - here’s my solution -

I actually made a fix for this that works fine for me - Not sure how to present it - but in the newsfeed.js make the following changes

1. At the end of the defaults of the newsfeed.js add the line replaceMe: [] as shown below -

   logFeedWarnings: false,
   replaceMe: []       
   

   },

2. In the getTemplateData: function () { add the following before the return { loaded: true,

   basically everything in the jep section all between the //*******
   return item;

    });
    //*******
    //jep  to fix title for various translations such as
    // a simple ' instead of showing '
    // also replace things like Seattle with Seattle, WA
    var tempTitle = item.title; 
   
    for(let i = 0; i <  this.config.replaceMe.length; i+= 2)
    {
        tempTitle = tempTitle.toString().replaceAll(this.config.replaceMe[i], this.config.replaceMe[i+1]);
    }
    //**********************
   
    return {
        loaded: true,
   

2A. In the return section -add the jep line as shown below
publishDate: moment(new Date(item.pubdate)).fromNow(),
title: tempTitle, //jep see above
description: item.description,

3. Finally - in your config.js - the area for the newsfeed - at the end add this and edit it for the items you want changed…

replaceMe: [ "'", "'", "Seattle", "Seattle, WA", "Biden", "(Pres) Biden",  "Zuckerberg", "Zuckerberg [DATA]"]

(sam, edited to add code block, which preserves the style of the quotes, else u get word processing style, which breaks config.js))

This will replace the 1st item with the 2nd item, etc… Add whatever translations you want (: I’ve had some fun with the replacements…

[sdetweil]

@j_joe u should propose that as a fix for the above listed issue…

moves control to the user, and eliminates a possible hack exposure

[J_Joe]

@sdetweil
Not sure how to do that (:

[sdetweil]

@j_joe go to the link, and add a comment to the existing issue on how you solved this…
copy your info here, there in the comment

[J_Joe]

@sdetweil

Got it - thank you. Done.
I hope my solution works for people. It’s been great for me and my needs! And it’s simple. How ever many items are in the array - it will look for them and replace them as dictated by the array…

[bma_diy]

@j_joe thank you, this worked for me. but i did have some trouble. only way i coudl get it to work for some reason was to place the character replacement array in the default section of newsfeed.js instead of in config.js

[huskernut0878]

@j_joe Thank you. I am very new to this and dont know what some of the things you are saying even are such as "In the getTemplateData: function () " and “in the return section” but that gives me some things to figure out. The best way to understand is to figure things out. Thanks again.