Special Chars getting butchered

[erskingardner]

Is there way to specify encoding? Or does it already default to something during the parsing. I'm using node-readability to parse lots and lots of blog pages (from a list of permalinks) but I'm getting lots of special chars (a manner of quotes, hyphens, etc.) that are transforming into messy jumbles (eg. ’)

[arrix]

The html parser accepts html source as string, which means it doesn't need to worry about text encoding because a javascript string is expected to contain valid utf-8 data. Could you please provide a test case to reproduce the issue?

If you need to deal with data with encodings other than utf-8, check out node-iconv https://github.com/bnoordhuis/node-iconv

[erskingardner]

I actually stepped back a level and handled all the encodings after I do the readability parsing since I need to pick out certain elements anyways. Thanks for the answer and the explanation though.

[darkhelmet]

Can you post an example? I'm seeing this too.

[adeelraza]

I'm seeing an issue with htmlentities. Using the clean-proxy example, try to open this article: http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/marketing/article/what-we-can-learn-from-justin-bieber-guy-kawasaki

” converts to ” .. and similarly other entities too.