I’m subscribed to the Money Stuff email newsletter and forward the emails from Gmail to Newsblur to read them. It looks fine in Newsblur itself, but when I click on the title of a story to read it the article by itself, the curly quotes are munged. For example:
The munged text looks like this:
The classic description of a successful investment banking analyst is “detail-oriented.â€
The URL looks like this: “https://www.newsblur.com/newsletters/story/7043354:c61794”
Oh interesting! I would love a feed address or url where I can sign up for the email so I can see for myself.
Just deployed a fix for this. Unfortunately, it won’t be retroactive, but you’ll see all new stories come with the correct encoding. Let me know if that’s not the case and give me any URLs where it doesn’t work.
I still see encoding errors in Monday’s Money Stuff
https://www.newsblur.com/newsletters/story/7043354:a9b1aa
What is the probability that the US Supreme Court will strike down President Donald Trump’s broad tariffs? There are a number of ways of thinking about that question. One is what you might call legal analysis: You can look at the text of the US Constitution and the relevant statutes, as well as relevant legal precedents, and try to figure out whether the tariffs are legal or not. If they seem very illegal, then the probability that the Supreme Court will strike them down is high; if they seem very legal, low; if the law is genuinely ambiguous then maybe it’s 50/50. In previous columns I have sort of gestured in the direction of this analysis, but honestly this might be the worst way of thinking about the question.Â
Well I’ll be. I was so proud of this fix, because it did work, but only on normal RSS feeds. I noticed Techmeme had this same encoding issues and I was thrilled that this fixed it as well.
But of course, I neglected to cover newsletters, which take a slightly different path into becoming stories. So that’s now deployed and will fix future newsletters.
If you see any encoding issues, please holler, I’d love to fix them!
