I read this and wondered, "what Planet software is Planet Haskell using that it's doing these odd things - oh, it's Venus? https://github.com/rubys/venus https

I read this and wondered, "what Planet software is Planet Haskell using that it's doing these odd things - oh, it's Venus? https://github.com/rubys/venus https://github.com/rubys/venus ... wow that's old... and doesn't that use something like filesystem storage for the feeds and couldn't this happen if you stored the xml with no character set specified and the parser messed it up on the way back in? Which since it's ending up with a windows encoding...wait, why am I remembering any of this....oh. checks credits for Venus, recordscratch yes, that's me, wondering why I fixed venus to run on windows 18 years ago" https://github.com/rubys/venus/commit/210781768705d20dc3cbe672ec249012608f4225 https://github.com/rubys/venus/commit/210781768705d20dc3cbe6... Sorry about that. As I recall at the time I was the only person using Venus on windows, and I was just running a hacked up version on a local machine. There's some conditionals in there about whether it uses libxml2 or not (in modern python, it wouldn't need to), that call doesn't take a charset parameter and my guess is the problems begin as soon as libxml2 tries to parse the file on disk. I think my own version was frankensteined to the extent of using a sqlite back end so I didn't have to deal with windows files any more. The author of Venus, Sam Ruby, is on here (rubys) but it looks like he hasn't checked in for a long time; last I saw he was over at fly.io. Oh and the even funnier part of this all is, back when this was written, Sam's blog was THE go to place to look up the list of Mojibake mistakes you'd made... https://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html#CleaningWindows https://intertwingly.net/stories/2004/04/14/i18n.html#Cleani...