Hikashop Google Products Plugin XML with problems

-- url of the page with the problem -- : www.havellasmotoparts.gr/products/products_list.xml
-- HikaShop version -- : 4.4.4
-- Joomla version -- : 3.10.3

Hello,

in my Greek eshop the XML produced by the Hikashop Google Products Plugin XML shows problems.
As a result Facebook catalogue cannot be filled using the XML feed.
I have used again in the past the XML feed for Hikashop+FB (in English) and it worked fine.

Is it possible that non-latin characters are the cause of the problem?

I checked the product descriptions that show in the error (using code mirror editor) but I found no weird characters.

I attach you the following files:
a) The XML file
b) The FF and Chrome screenshots

Thank you,
Yannis

After some research I found that a wrong character is inserted when a long product description is truncated (see screenshot).
I retyped manually a product description and the character is inserted again!

Please see attached screenshot.

Yannis

Ok, it seems I found the bug in the code.

In the code you are using the substr php function which counts bytes and may cut characters in half....
I replaced it with mb_substr and everything works ok now

Please see: stackoverflow.com/questions/2124338/why-...-when-cutting-a-text

I'm waiting for an official bug-fix!

Yannis

Hi,

Thank you for your feedback.
I've added a patch on our end to avoid that for multibyte characters.
Download again the install package of HikaShop on our website and install it on yours and it will add the modifications to avoid that problem.