Since Google shut down its Reader service, I am a regular user of the Tiny Tiny RSS reader. Having my own RSS reader installation gives me more power regarding my privacy and the services I am using. Consider me a happy user.
However, there are some issued regarding full UTF8 support when using MySQL. When a feed uses UTF8 emoijs, tt-rss will throw up and report an error. Unfortunately, this only manifests itself with log entries like this:
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Today one of our developers came to me to discuss a problem and I wanted to show him something on one of our Linux machines. To check a process, I ran pstree and noticed that the formatting of the output was all wrong:
simon@atlas:~$ pstree
initââ¬âacpid
ââapache2âââ10*[apache2]
ââatd
[..]
âârsyslogdâââ3*[{rsyslogd}]
ââsshdââ¬âsshdâââbashâââping
â ââsshdâââbashâââpstree
â ââsshdâââsshdâââsh
ââudevdâââ2*[udevd]
This is obviously just a cosmetical problem and the output is quite hard to read. When encountering something like this, the first guess would be that the encoding is somehow wrong. When checking the environment variables with env, we find that LANG is set to “en_US.UTF-8”.
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