#36 Could not determine the format

When adding this rss feed to AmphetaDesk I get the
following error message:
AmphetaDesk could not determine the format of
http://www.betanews.com/rss2.

What's the problem?

[Christoph]

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Does also not work with http://www.blogigo.de which uses rss
2.0!

[Chad Cloman]

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RSS 2.0 is not the problem. The issue appears to be with the
XML encoding on the first line of the file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252" ?>

I removed the 'encoding="windows-1252"' statement and
everything worked fine. I suppose this means that
windows-1252 is not supported by the XML parser used by
amphetaDesk. (Note that the "bad" site provided by cero,
http://www.blogigo.de, also uses encoding="windows-1252".)

windows-1252 is a somehwat recent addition to the list of
official character sets. It may be that newer versions of
XML::Parser can handle it. Morbus should look into this,
because it seems that the charset is gaining some popularity.

Whenever load_channel() fails, as in this case, the error
message is misleading. [See bug 793580, "Wrong Error Message
(add_url is evil)".]

To workaround this problem, you can edit
<AmphetaDesk>/lib/AmphetaDesk/Channels.pm (where
<AmphetaDesk> is the amphetaDesk install directory). Go to
the subroutine 'load_channel', then page down (or search)
until you find the call to XMLin. On amphetaDesk 0.93.1, the
call looks like this:

my $data = eval { XMLin($channel_xml, forcearray=> [ "item" ],
keyattr => [ ], suppressempty=>undef ) };

Immediately above this line, add the following:

$channel_xml =~ s/windows-1252/ISO-8859-1/sg;

Before this change will take effect, you will need to close
the amphetaDesk window in your browser and then exit and
restart the main amphetaDesk console.

You can replace the string "ISO-8859-1" with any encoding
you wish (such as UTF-8). Or you can even delete the entire
encoding parameter like so:

$channel_xml =~ s/encoding="windows-1252"//sg;

[Chad Cloman]

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I did a little more research and found that XML::Parser has
native support for the following encodings: UTF-8,
ISO-8859-1, UTF-16, and US-ASCII. In order to add additional
encodings, you need to use XML::Encoding.

Details can be found here:
http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2000/04/05/feature/

[Morbus Iff]

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The latest CVS has had this code/patch for a while. From the CVS
CHANGELOG: - the following XML encodings have been added to
AmphetaDesk. from XML::Parser::Encodings: big5, euc-kr, iso-8859-2
through -9, windows-1250 and 1252, x-euc-jp-jisx0221, x-euc-jp-unicode,
x-sjis-cp932, x-sjis-jdk1117, x-sjis-jisx0221, x-sjis-unicode. from Klaus
Johannes Rusch: iso-8859-15. more information on how to build your
own encodings, as well as insert them into Ampheta:

http://sf.net/tracker/?
func=detail&aid=766157&group_id=21649&atid=372519

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