Page title meta tag encoding issue

pretenuomului · #1 Jul 27, 2009, 01:46 AM

This MAY be considered a bug, but it's actually a simple encoding issue I've discovered and thought I'd share.

Config:

Wordpress 2.8.2
Atahualpa 3.4.1 with

"Use bytes for all SEO options?"-enabled
"Meta Title Tag format" = `Page Title`

Symptoms:

If any of the strings that would become part of page title meta tag (post name, category name, search name etc.) contains non-ASCII chars, the output is messed up like so:

Code:

'ţeavă' becomes '&Aring;&pound;eav&Auml;�'

This DOES NOT occur when switching back to the default theme.

Solution:

In bfa_meta_tags.php, the htmlentities() call on lines 75 and 83 needs a the third parameter specified as 'UTF-8':

Code:

$bfa_ata_page_title = htmlentities(single_cat_title('', false),ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');
$bfa_ata_page_title = htmlentities(wp_specialchars($s),ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8');

This will solve the issue.

Hope this helps those using the theme in languages using funny chars. Perhaps it would be a good idea to fix this directly in the official release.