Html entities in Title and Description instead of UTF characters

  • Resolved fanistsiros

    (@fanistsiros)


    3 years, 8 months ago

    Hi !
    I have a weird behaviour in my meta Titles and Descriptions opengraph data included.
    Site language is Greek and meta data are not UTF characters but HTML entities.
    For example instead of 10 πυροσβ?στε?
    This becomes : Δ?κα πυροσβ?στες

    This behaviour occurs only when these fields are automaticaly generated. If i manually fill in meta Title and Description fields then i have corect UTF characters inside page HTML generated code.

    Is there any way to express automaticaly UTF characters and not HTML entities ?

    Thanks

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hello!

    No system online works with UTF perfectly.

    Background: We have to congeal Windows, Mac, and Linux to browser engines like Blink, Gecko, and Webkit, which need to communicate with protocols like HTML over HTTP (1.1/2/3) brought forth by the CMS we call WordPress that must utilize web servers like Apache and NGINX whose data is brought forth by the widest landscape of PHP and SQL versions and an unlimited number of configurations thereof (not to mention they can run on Windows or Linux, whereof the latter has about 2^32 different distributions, and configurations, etc.)… and everything needs to be secure as well, living under an umbrella of something that’s called “continuous development.”

    In the case of WordPress, it handles meta differently than content (because of any of the aforementioned issues). So, we have to extrapolate the best from it without losing data. Ultimately, some data convert to entities, whereas others don’t.

    I strongly advise against working around this issue because it’s yet another Pandora’s box (full of nasty snakes that bite). If you understood the background, then you’re halfway there… the other half is ignoring the issue entirely.

    Thread Starter fanistsiros

    (@fanistsiros)

    Hello !
    So definitely, this is not a bug. I got it.
    I will stick with the option to manually insert meta titles and decriptions. Seems this is a better option for SEO anyway.

    Note: I liked the Pandora ‘s box metaphor. And i am a Greek as she was… haha ! I don’t like snakes that bite.

    Thank you for your response and your efforts to bring us this plugin !

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