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cinemabeach
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Hello,

I am seeing a character issue in my event descriptions when using merged ics calendars from my public calendar in Apple's Calendar app.

[Oct 5, 2012, 6:56:13 AM] [108.0.223.148]

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Can you be more specific?
You can even paste a part of the ics file here if possible.

What is in the ics file, and what are you seeing on the Mac?
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[Oct 12, 2012, 2:09:36 AM] [24.190.17.62]

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Sorry, I had a much more detailed post that somehow got deleted (perhaps during all that spam last week). Here is the full issue:

I am using Apple's Calendar program to generate multiple ics files that I am merging on my localendar (this is a great way to update on the fly, by the way). I am inputing descriptions of the events in the Calendar app, but the text, when displayed on localendar, is not encoded properly. My understanding is that Apple's calendar is utilizing UTF-8, but special characters like quotes and ampersands.

You can see the calendar incorporated into my wordpress site here:
http://www.cinemabeach.com/features/calendar/
(using that very nice pinboard layout, which I'm very happy with!)

Also, I am having an issue withe the RSS feed, which may account for the character issue. But I'll jump through one hurdle at a time.

[Oct 12, 2012, 5:45:50 AM] [108.0.223.148]

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I see what you mean on a few events, but we'll need to see the ics file too. Can you open a support ticket, and we'll reply back with an email for you to attach the file to.

localendar is also UTF-8, so that shouldn't be the issue.

What issue are you having with the RSS?
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[Oct 15, 2012, 11:37:26 PM] [24.190.17.62]

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