What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. Use the following RSS URL http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss

2. Compare the headlines with the actual headlines from www.spiegel.de You will notice that the RSS feed headlines in the RSS skin will lack the german umlauts

ä = ä ü = ü ö = ö Ä = Ä Ü = Ü Ö = Ö ß = ß

Other skins - the Winamp&FooBar skin for example - will display umlauts just fine, it appears all RSS skins (those from other contributors as well) are having trouble with those characters (and probably other special characters in other languages)

ANSI codes (like "ü" for "ü" are also not parsed correctly. For reference, try the following RSS URL

http://rss.focus.de/fol/XML/rss_folnews.xml

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

For instance, "ENTFÜHRTER KAPITÄN" becomes "ENTFHRTER KAPITN" when parsed from

http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss

and "Entführter Kapitän" when parsed from

http://rss.focus.de/fol/XML/rss_folnews.xml

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system? v0.14.1 (32bit) April 09 2009 build

You have to setup "CodePage" according to the character of RSS. If you omit a setup of CodePage, WebParser.dll will parse the page by UTF-8.

Many RSS in the world are unified by UTF-8. but there is the different one, too. http://www.spiegel.de/schlagzeilen/tops/index.rss This character of RSS is "8859-1". so you should define "CodePage=28591"

If you want to be found the details of CodePage, the following sites will be helpful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd317756%28VS.85%29.aspx

Now, although it is about another problem, there is no solution with this decisive. http://rss.focus.de/fol/XML/rss_folnews.xml You only replace each word by "Substitute". e.g. Substitute="ü":"ü",.....etc

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Excellent, I did not know that. Works fine now, thank you very much.