I'm trying to read a rss feed which uses the iso-8859-1 encoding.
I can get all elements fine, the problem is when I put it in a textblock it will not show all characters. I'm not sure what i'm doing wrong. i've tried a few solutions I found on google but this didn't work for me. I must be missing something.. It's also the first time I really work with anything other than utf-16. I never had to convert anything before.
The app works as follows I downloadstring async(WebClient). So when that is called I get a string containing the complete rss feed.
I have tried getting the bytes, then encoding.convert.. But I must be missing something.
Like this is a sample
WebClient RSS = new WebClient();
RSS.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
RSS.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(RSS_DSC);
RSS.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri("some rss feed"));
public void RSS_DSC(object sender, DownloadStringCompletedEventArgs args)
{
_xml = XElement.Parse(args.Result);
foreach(XElement item in _xml.Elements("channel").Elements("item"))
{
feeditem.title = item.Element("title").Value;
// + all other items
}
}
I've tried this aswell
private void RSS_ORC(object sender, OpenReadCompletedEventArgs args)
{
Encoding e = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1");
Stream ez = args.Result;
StreamReader rdr = new StreamReader(ez, e);
XElement _xml = _xml = XElement.Parse(rdr.ReadToEnd());
feedlist = new List<Code.NewsItem>();
XNamespace dc = "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
foreach (XElement item in _xml.Elements("channel").Elements("item"))
{
Code.NewsItem feeditem = new Code.NewsItem();
feeditem.title = item.Element("title").Value;
feeditem.description = item.Element("description").Value;
feeditem.pubdate = item.Element("pubDate").Value;
feeditem.author = item.Element(dc + "creator").Value;
feedlist.Add(feeditem);
}
listBox1.ItemsSource = feedlist;
}
Though titles contain characters that are not displayed well either. Like.. I can get the encoding to partially work. Instead of having these characters: the square with a question mark, a question mark or the singe square.
Don't get me wrong I'm a total beginner on this. But the solutions that has been posted on the web do not solve it for me.
Note that I removed the encoding part because it wasn't working :/ If someone would be able to help me that would be amazing.