Support for non-English characters and localized Google-searches

[mapdaddy]

I'm a Norwegian Content Solution 2 user, and in general I'm impressed with the product.

However, I'm struggling a little bit with one minor and one major issue:

1) The minor issue first: When scraping from Google, I get American search results. It would have been great to be able to localize the search result to for instance Norway, Sweden, Denmark or whatever country you're working from.

2) ... so, to the major issue, which causes me some grief: Content Solution 2 doesn't seem to support national characters like, ñ, ø, å, æ, ü, etc. This error makes the software virtually useless for use with another language than English. Is there a workaround here?

[mapdaddy]

[...]2) ... so, to the major issue, which causes me some grief: Content Solution 2 doesn't seem to support national characters like, ñ, ø, å, æ, ü, etc. This error makes the software virtually useless for use with another language than English. Is there a workaround here?

I have to reply to my own post here, since I've managed to find a workaround:

The solution is to enter the unicode instead of the character itself in Content Solution. This actually work!

One example: Don't enter "México", enter "M & # 2 3 3 ; x i c o" (without the spaces) in Content Solution's editor. This will output "México" in the RSS feed. The same goes for the variables. Avoid unicode in the variable names -- there is no need for that.

To replace ordinary characters with unicode, you need a conversion table:
http://plato.stanford.edu/symbols/entities.html