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

At the end of the defaults of the newsfeed.js add the line replaceMe: [] as shown below -
```
logFeedWarnings: false,
replaceMe: []       
```
},

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 &apos;
 // 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,

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: [ "&apos;", "'", "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…

SOLVED Character set for news fed text &apos;

SOLVED Character set for news fed text '