Title: [Plugin: Live Press] Quick hack for German characters fix
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: Live Press] Quick hack for German characters fix

 *  Resolved [kirilisa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kirilisa/)
 * (@kirilisa)
 * [16 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-livepress-quick-hack-for-german-characters-fix/)
 * Hi folks,
 * I was also a bit frustrated by the German letters (umlauts etc.) being stripped
   out because I love this plugin but it kept turning Zürich into Zrich!
 * So I hacked the code a teeny bit and that fixed it for me.
 * in wp-content/plugins/livepress/LivePress/lpsynch.php at about line 339 (right
   before where it says “// Fix lj-tags hack”) I added:
 * `$the_event = htmlspecialchars_decode(htmlentities($the_event, ENT_NOQUOTES, '
   UTF-8', FALSE), ENT_NOQUOTES);`
 * This seems not to break anything, but who knows. Different encodings are always
   such a nightmare. Anyway it works for me!

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 *  [digsite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/digsite/)
 * (@digsite)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-livepress-quick-hack-for-german-characters-fix/#post-1296425)
 * thanks for this hack. I had not started working on getting Cyrillic character
   support into LP. I’ll get this into the the official LivePress release once I
   get a chance to test it for myself.
 * First we’re trying to resolve the latest issue caused by this plugin making too
   many connections to LJ.
 * -Tania

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