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Character encoding is wrong on some responses.
posted by ElgarLSTAFFMOD on March 14, 2014 at 9:32 PM
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1398-the-sopranos requires a utf8_decode to correctly process the overview.
https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/1516-the-a-team seems to have some strange uac codes in the json.
The following php works on most (Sopranos included), but nothing I try clears up the overview of 'The A-Team'.
mb_convert_encoding($str, 'UTF-8', "auto");
Reply by ElgarL
on March 15, 2014 at 11:47 AM
"title":"Ã\u2020on Flux"
This isn't properly encoded or UTF8.
Not sure if this page will display properly, but the original is 'Æon Flux'
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 15, 2014 at 1:11 PM
Hi Edgar,
I can't seem to reproduce this. Here's the cURL output for Aeon Flux:
{ "adult": false, "backdrop_path": "/3c7e0IywQOmPKyVRPwNe2uys0MZ.jpg", "belongs_to_collection": null, "budget": 62000000, "genres": [ { "id": 878, "name": "Science Fiction" } ], "homepage": "", "id": 8202, "imdb_id": "tt0402022", "original_title": "Æon Flux", "overview": "400 Years in the future, disease has wiped out the majority of the worlds population, except one walled city, Bregna, ruled by a Congress of Scientists. When Æon Flux, the top operative in the underground 'Monican' rebellion, is sent on a mission to kill a Government Leader, she uncoveres a world of secrets.", "popularity": 3.23805550330488, "poster_path": "/3rKw2QInyaACZ6wnqSg4nAXgKal.jpg", "production_companies": [ { "name": "Paramount Pictures", "id": 4 }, { "name": "Lakeshore Entertainment", "id": 126 }, { "name": "Valhalla Motion Pictures", "id": 11533 }, { "name": "MTV Films", "id": 746 }, { "name": "MTV Productions", "id": 11534 }, { "name": "Colossal Pictures", "id": 6041 } ], "production_countries": [ { "iso_3166_1": "US", "name": "United States of America" } ], "release_date": "2005-12-01", "revenue": 52000000, "runtime": 93, "spoken_languages": [ { "iso_639_1": "en", "name": "English" } ], "status": "Released", "tagline": "The Perfect World Meets The Perfect Assassin", "title": "Æon Flux", "vote_average": 5.7, "vote_count": 139 }Which has the correct entity.
It looks to me like you're not using a JSON library that is handling the UTF-8 entities properly. Take a look at this Gist for an example of what I just tried.
And if I reference this UTF-8 table,
\xc3\x86is the valid UTF-8 entity for Æ.Reply by ElgarL
on March 15, 2014 at 1:36 PM
Very sorry I'm wrong here. My Java IDE was not set to UTF-8 so it was messing up the received data.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 15, 2014 at 1:43 PM
No worries!
Reply by Chukwuka
on April 11, 2015 at 11:41 PM
Hello, can anybody please tell me an example of a json document request for a particular movie details such as it poster picture and genre and cast? The http://docs.themoviedb.apiary.io/ does not give a very helpful example. I want a JSON returned data which i can use to display details. Thank you
Reply by Travis Bell
on April 12, 2015 at 10:27 AM
HI Chukwuka,
Would you mind going to the API forum and creating a new thread? That way we can keep conversations straight and in one place. Unfortunately I can't move just a single post into a new thread so this is something you'll need to do.
Reply by Chukwuka
on April 12, 2015 at 11:31 AM
Hi Travis, I just opened a new thread now. It's called "Help needed for JSON image and data parsing example "