Feed is OK, but some [token]'s not displaying data

OK, right after writing this post I though I should try adding an event written in English only, and that worked for both issues I mentioned.
Is it possible that the plugin does not supprt UTF-8?

Hi Yehuda

I think UTF-8 should be supported as long as your theme and WordPress do.

So, your problem is that if you enter text in the WordPress editor (including [] square brackets) these are not processed correctly? And so is the content from your feed in Hebrew?

I would like to add better international support to the plugin so I would like to figure out your case.

Hello Fulvio,
Thank you for looking into this.
The WP installation is utf-8 and everything else is presented correctly in any language.
I checked it from many aspects and I am sure that google cal. is not sending the feed with the Hebrew text at all.
I set an independent php file with the GC api code with very basic elements and the Hebrew fields were empty as well.
I also dumped the raw feed by adding a command to the plugin code before it process the feed and got it empty again in the Hebrew fields.
After googling I found some references that proved that it is a problem with the feed source.
However, I did not find any solution for that yet.
I’ll be happy to hear some more ideas about this,
Thank you,
Yehuda

oh I see, so there’s a problem with the feed source…

could you point these links to me? (at least if they’re in English)

I would like to know more about these issues too

right now the plugin is fetching the calendar feed using wp_remote_get (a WordPress wrapper for curl)

but me and others are working at a new version that uses a proper Google Client in PHP – I don’t know yet if in that case the data received will be different

Sorry, what link do you need?
I am aware to wp_remote_get and tried to force it to tell GC to send the json in utf but had no luck with that.
I think that somehow if you ask for utf correctly, GC will send it all, but I do not understand it thoroughly so it remains a guess ??

You can see here that they had the same issue in Moodle
https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-30756

Ah, just links that describe the issue with Google Calendar and UTF8 or feed containing non-Latin characters.

But I did a quick search and think it’s doable using their API instead curl/wp_remote_get:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19297139/inserting-events-that-contain-non-ascii-characters-using-the-google-calendar-api

but right now we need a refactor the plugin first to explore this further

I’m marking this as solved although it isn’t really
but will pin down your feedback and this issue so I’ll make sure it’s covered at some point

if you have any other questions with the plugin please let me know

thank you

Thanks for this link. I’ll try playing with this code and see what I get.