RSS HTML to BBcode: Replacing Spaces with Asterisks?

[taylor_smith]

Greetings. I am trying to use the RSS feature, but I have been encountering a problem. At some point between pulling html from an RSS feed and converting the HTML to BBcode, some spaces are being converted to asterisks. For example, when the RSS feed pulled:

<strong>SWG Galactic Civil War and Player City Statistics- 14th of December 2010</strong>

it showed up as follows:

<strong>SWG Galactic Civil War and Player City Statistics-*14th*of*December 2010</strong>

As a result, my feeds are showing up with a bunch of random asterisks.

Does anyone know why this his happening and how to fix it?

Thanks in advance!

[kh99]

I don't know, but I have a theory. Maybe some part of the process sees a "non-breaking space" character as some sort of special character that it doesn't know how to represent.

[taylor_smith]

Hmm. I'm not sure. This is happening in both vB3.7 and vB4.x. Any way to fix it?

The feed is here: http://stratics.com/frontpage/feed.

[kh99]

Yeah, looks like those places with asterisks are hex C2A0 in the feed, which I think is the UTF-8 encoding for a no-break space. So it kind of looks like whatever you're using to convert it to a post isn't decoding it right, or else it's deciding to display that character as an asterisk for some reason).

(I should say that I don't know very much about character encoding and I had to google it to figure this out, so I could be wrong).