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pietvo · 12-31-2011, 10:51 AM

I am writing a recipe for a newspaper that mixes up encodings in its RSS feeds. Meaning that they use two encodings in one file: iso-8859-1 and utf-8. Calibre most of the time decodes the text correctly, but not always. I would like to preprocess the feeds and recode the iso-8859-1 parts to utf-8 before processing them (I think I know which parts have which encoding).

In calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py it says in parse_feeds:

parsed_feeds.append(feed_from_xml(f.read(),

Basically I would like to process between the read() and the feed_from_xml(). I could copy-paste parse_feeds to my recipe and change that, but IMHO that violates OO principles (DRY). The other way that I can think of is monkey-patching or subclassing the browser class and/or related classes but that probably is even uglier. Is there a better way? Or can I request this as a feature?

12-31-2011, 10:51 AM	#1
pietvo Reader Posts: 520 Karma: 24612 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Utrecht, NL Device: Kobo Aura 2, iPhone, iPad	Is there a way to preprocess a feed XML I am writing a recipe for a newspaper that mixes up encodings in its RSS feeds. Meaning that they use two encodings in one file: iso-8859-1 and utf-8. Calibre most of the time decodes the text correctly, but not always. I would like to preprocess the feeds and recode the iso-8859-1 parts to utf-8 before processing them (I think I know which parts have which encoding). In calibre/src/calibre/web/feeds/news.py it says in parse_feeds: parsed_feeds.append(feed_from_xml(f.read(), Basically I would like to process between the read() and the feed_from_xml(). I could copy-paste parse_feeds to my recipe and change that, but IMHO that violates OO principles (DRY). The other way that I can think of is monkey-patching or subclassing the browser class and/or related classes but that probably is even uglier. Is there a better way? Or can I request this as a feature?