Bug - Strange encoding (40° => &#176)

[johnykes]

Hello,

I have some encoding problems and I don't know how to fix them.

For example when I try to set this title to a product:

shopifyProduct.Title= "Spiral flute 40°"

That's what I see in Shopify: Spiral flute 40&#176

I also have this problem with special characters specific to some language only.

How can I fix that?

Version: 6.19.0

[nozzlegear]

Hey! My first suspicion is that this is something Shopify is doing on their end automatically, as that character sequence looks like the HTML decimal reference for the degree symbol. I'd bet if you looked at the product on the storefront, it would render as Spiral flute 40°.

Can you try changing the product title to another HTML character, just to confirm?

Input	Output
Spiral flute 40 &	Spiral Flue 40 &#38
Spiral Flue 40 ®	Spiral Flue 40 &#174

Edit: it'd also be good to confirm if you edit a product directly via the store admin, does ShopifySharp then get/list it with the encoded character or with the º character?

[johnykes]

In shopify I see "&#176", not °.
If I manually edit in the admin dashboard to °, it works, but if I do the update using ShopifySharp, it's converted into &#176.
Couldn't find any setting/option to solve this.

[nozzlegear]

Ah okay, thanks for confirming! It sounds like it's a bug in ShopifySharp then. Are you using the ProductService class to update your product?

[johnykes]

Yes, I am using ProductService

[nozzlegear]

I'm thinking it's a bug in how we've configured the Json serializer. I'll add some unit tests and get this fixed!