By: Yann

Yann — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:05:38 +0000

I installed podcastamatic a couple of days ago on FreeBSD/Perl5.8.8 machine and I ran across a problem with MP3 where the tags contains accented characters. This resulted in an invalid feed beeing generated because the latin1 encoded text was output as is in the feed. I patched the source so that the conversion to UTF-8 would be done before generating the feed and it worked. I thought I’d share that fix with you.

BTW the first google result for “podcastamatic” returns an old page of yours with broken links and no way to contact you, I had to dig deep to find your real, active blog.

— podcastamatic.pl 2008-11-08 15:57:13.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/bin/podcastamatic 2008-11-08 16:05:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -178,10 +178,10 @@
sub MakeHTML {
logprint “Building automatic HTML file \”$Config{HTMLServerSide}\”\n”;

- open (HTMLFILE, ‘>’, $Config{HTMLServerSide}) or logdie “Can’t open \”$Config{HTMLServerSide}\” for HTML output.\n”;
+ open (HTMLFILE, ‘>utf8′, $Config{HTMLServerSide}) or logdie “Can’t open \”$Config{HTMLServerSide}\” for HTML output.\n”;
print HTMLFILE “”;
print HTMLFILE “\n\n”;
- print HTMLFILE “\n”;
+ print HTMLFILE “\n”;
print HTMLFILE “\n”;
print HTMLFILE “\n”;
print HTMLFILE “$Config{Title}\n”;
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@

logprint “Building XML file \”$Config{XMLServerSide}\”\n”;

- open (XMLFILE, ‘>’, $Config{XMLServerSide}) or logdie “Can’t open \”$Config{XMLServerSide}\” for XML output.\n”;
+ open (XMLFILE, ‘>utf8′, $Config{XMLServerSide}) or logdie “Can’t open \”$Config{XMLServerSide}\” for XML output.\n”;

print XMLFILE “\n”;

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