Index: openacs-4/packages/feed-parser/tcl/feed-parser-procs.tcl
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RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/openacs-4/packages/feed-parser/tcl/feed-parser-procs.tcl,v
diff -u -N -r1.2 -r1.3
--- openacs-4/packages/feed-parser/tcl/feed-parser-procs.tcl	30 May 2004 10:16:23 -0000	1.2
+++ openacs-4/packages/feed-parser/tcl/feed-parser-procs.tcl	30 May 2004 12:32:12 -0000	1.3
@@ -8,6 +8,22 @@
 
 namespace eval feed_parser {}
 
+ad_proc -public feed_parser::http_get_xml {
+    {-max_redirect 4}
+    -url:required
+    {-headers ""}
+} {
+    Retrieves a document through HTTP GET in a way that's useful
+    for RSS feeds. Tries to preserve encoding.
+    
+    @author Guan Yang (guan@unicast.org)
+    @creation-date 2004-05-30
+} {
+    package require http
+    ::http::config -accept "text/xml, application/xml, application/rss+xml, application/atom+xml, application/rss, application/atom" -useragent "OpenACS"
+    set http [::http::geturl $url -headers $headers]
+}
+
 ad_proc -public feed_parser::sort_result {
     {-result:required}
 } {
@@ -231,6 +247,18 @@
                 of that URL.
     @return A Tcl array-list data structure.
 } {
+    # Unless we have explicit encoding information, we'll assume UTF-8
+    if { [regexp {^[[:space:]]*<\?xml[^>]+encoding="([^"]*)"} $xml match encoding] } {
+        set encoding [string tolower $encoding]
+        array set converts {
+            utf-8 utf-8
+            iso-8859-1 iso8859-1
+        }
+        if { [info exists converts($encoding)] } {
+            set xml [encoding convertfrom $converts($encoding) $xml]
+        }
+    }
+
     # Prefill these slots for errors
     set result(channel) ""
     set result(items) ""