I am re-writing the spider that fetches the latest Pickup Lines for Blog Portal and realized that all the non-English characters render incorrectly.
I
am using .NET for the spider and the Pickupline is fetched correctly with the XMLDocument class (prints OK
in debug window), but gets messed up in the process of making a round trip
to the database (Microsoft SQL Server 2000; the PickupLine is a nvarchar(200)). I have played with converting encoding mechanisms,
storage sizes etc, but in vain. Anyone with experience in handling non-English
characters in feeds please help me with your tips at 
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FYI: Microsoft says this.
Minor Changes to Indian Blog Portal
- Tagging. Also support for Browse by Tags. (examples: Politics, Cricket)
- Browse by Category (example: The Good Guys, Blog Martyrs, Old Flames)
- Support for both RSS and Atom
- Improved implementation of Feed Autodiscovery
- Disclosure of some statistics
If you have a cool idea, please drop me a line
