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special characters get not replaced when getting external link titles

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    Post special characters get not replaced when getting external link titles

    Hi

    I noticed that here on vBSEO special characters like german umlaute are not replaced by their utf8 equivalent instead they are removed.

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    Hello,

    this forum uses ISO-8859-1 character set.
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    I added the umlaut instead of "UE" as replacement.

    Sorry.

    The right link is now fixed.

    The charset you are using is the one I use too, Umlaute should be displayed normally.
    I think it is the function that pulls the page title from the website.
    If it finds Umlaute, it removes them instead of replacing them by like "UE" for "Ü"

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    Replacement is only applied to URLs, not to the retrieved titles.
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    but why strip special characters then if your charsets supports them?

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    It happens because of the beta feature we are working on to automatically recode charsets in these cases.
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    That sounds promising.

    Thank you

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