Re: International RSS-Feed (ISO-8859-1) needed
On six apart, SIX LOG (the creator of ))MoveableType(()I read an artical about XMLRPC and international support.
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2. XML-RPC is severely lacking in internationalization (I18N) support.
The specification says that all strings are ASCII-encoded, which is an artificial limitation on the type of content that can be passed around via XML-RPC (there is no such limitation in XML itself). Treating content as utf-8 is technically breaking the spec, and since the spec is frozen, there's no way to change this.
Benefits to users: Technically, any application that treats text as being encoded in anything other than US ASCII characters is breaking the spec. This means that XML-RPC technically supports only English-language posts. An API that takes internationalization into account will not have this limitation, and will allow posting in any language, using any encoding.
Non-English weblogs are no longer the minority (if they ever were) a significant portion of the weblog space, as the NITLE Weblog Census shows. Out of 536,935 likely weblogs, only 263,577less than halfare in English the 398k weblogs where language could be determined, only 242k are in English (thanks to Maciej for the correction). We need an API whose spec can support non-English weblogs (and we need a way to identify the language in the feed).
Update: The XML-RPC spec has been updated to remove the ASCII limitation. This is a very good thing, for the benefits above. Kudos to Dave Winer for recognizing the potential for confusion in the spec and clarifying it to fit with the majority of XML-RPC implementations.
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Hope it's help to understand the requirement and problem.
paulap