Title: [Plugin: FeedWordPress] Problem with UTF-8 names Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # [Plugin: FeedWordPress] Problem with UTF-8 names * [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * (@devmohsh) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/) * Hi, * I test the plug-in and it work great expect small problem, when the username is not in English, the plug-in cannot create the users because the user filter and nicename filter will return empty string !!! * please can you fix this bug or let me know where to modify? * I suggest to create the username using the Host url + random string like the random password ! * another thing i did not test it really, but did the plug-in support naming conflict? for example, when John username found in x.com and y.com, with different email, does the plug-in create John1 ?? or reuse the current John account ?? * Regards, keep up the good work πŸ˜‰ Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [C. Johnson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/radgeek/) * (@radgeek) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582013) * devmohsh, * Thanks for alerting me to this issue. Could you provide me with the URL for one or more feeds where you are encountering usernames that cause this problem? I will be glad to work on a fix, which can be incorporated into the next public release of FeedWordPress, but it will go much easier if I have some URLs of example feeds to work with, and test my solution against. * Thanks, -C * Thread Starter [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * (@devmohsh) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582030) * sorry for my late πŸ™‚ * there is some URLs from wordpress.com and blogger.com [http://ibashar.wordpress.com/feed/](http://ibashar.wordpress.com/feed/) [http://mne7.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default](http://mne7.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default) * these is a special case where the Arabic user contain β€œ-” so the plug-in will generate a user witch name β€œ-” only !! [http://www.shbbk.com/wp-admin/admin.php?link_id=6&page=feedwordpress/feeds-page.php](http://www.shbbk.com/wp-admin/admin.php?link_id=6&page=feedwordpress/feeds-page.php) * i try the Unsubscribe feature and choose :Delete this syndicated link and all the posts that were syndicated from it but nothing deleted !! * i don not know if it always happened or only for the arabic and other UTF-8 charset * πŸ™‚ thx alot * Thread Starter [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * (@devmohsh) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582041) * I found some other bugs πŸ™‚ * the first one, when you have a big number of feeds, the sync process will crash because of the memory usage, so you must free the memory resource after every feed finished * the second problem is than we can add the feed many time, it will be more easy if you add a check to remove the duplication * thx alot * [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/) * (@bluebird2) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582045) * I have the memory problem as well. I have noticed that I have to turn off some of the plugins before running FeedWordPress. * Thread Starter [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * (@devmohsh) * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582046) * I detect a new bug * if we register a feed from wordpress blogs and it work in some type of permalinks, then the authors change the permalinks settings from their blog, the plug-in will generate an error and cannot parse the XML file * for example i get this post [http://www.bourb.org/2010/07/23/my-gaza/](http://www.bourb.org/2010/07/23/my-gaza/) * after that i change the permalinks to work like [http://www.bourb.org/?p=857](http://www.bourb.org/?p=857) * if i delete the sync post and update the feed again it will not import it never read the rss feed * the second problem is that you did not save the guid from the rss and only take the permalink, so if the plug-in read the rss file it will generate a new posts from the same original posts, is not it ? * [norozzad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/norozzad/) * (@norozzad) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582051) * hi, For the problem user name, Submit the feed adress in feedburner goole and open it , when go optimize/SmartCast and edit Podcast author in english name. * I hope your problem is resolved * Thread Starter [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * (@devmohsh) * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582053) * hi norozzad * this is not the best way, we can simply go to the authors page in the feed settings and map the UTF-8 name to a new english one, then we can change the nickname to the UTF-8 so every thing will be ok without using a 3rd party. * but i add this here to be done Automatically by the script not manually every time πŸ™‚ Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic β€˜[Plugin: FeedWordPress] Problem with UTF-8 names’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/feedwordpress_a6a79a.svg) * [FeedWordPress](https://wordpress.org/plugins/feedwordpress/) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedwordpress/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedwordpress/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedwordpress/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/feedwordpress/reviews/) * 7 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [devmohsh](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devmohsh/) * Last activity: [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-feedwordpress-problem-with-utf-8-names/#post-1582053) * Status: not resolved