{"id":1074061,"date":"2016-02-16T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-17T00:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/google-information-fails-with-special-characters-from-eventbrite\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T08:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:35:06","slug":"google-information-fails-with-special-characters-from-eventbrite","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/google-information-fails-with-special-characters-from-eventbrite\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Information fails with special characters from EventBrite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We love the plugin but are having an issue where if the event imported from EventBrite has a special character in it, or the organizer or any other info imported from EventBrite puts in all these weird special characters that cause issues with the google search results, and other parts of our site as well. Here is an example of what we are seeing: <\/p>\n<p><code>&lt;script type=&quot;application\/ld+json&quot;&gt;[{&quot;@context&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/schema.org&quot;,&quot;@type&quot;:&quot;Event&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Built To Spill @ Slim\\u2019s &lt;br&gt; w\/ The Hand, Iceberg Ferg&quot;,&quot;description&quot;:&quot;&lt;p&gt;\\u00a0Door 7pm \/ Show 8pm Twenty years on from first signing to Warner Bros. Records, Built To Spill returned in 2015 with its eighth studio album, Untethered Moon. That\\u2019s now two complete decades that one of America\\u2019s leading \\u201cindie rock\\u201d bands has happily made its home on a major label, and in the process redefined [&amp;hellip;]&lt;\/p&gt;\\\\n&quot;,&quot;image&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.slimspresents.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/BLANK.jpg&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:&quot;http:\/\/www.slimspresents.com\/event\/built-to-spill-slims-4\/&quot;,&quot;startDate&quot;:&quot;2016-02-10T03:00:00+00:00&quot;,&quot;endDate&quot;:&quot;2016-02-10T07:59:00+00:00&quot;,&quot;location&quot;:{&quot;@type&quot;:&quot;Place&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Slim&#8217;s&quot;,&quot;address&quot;:&quot;333 11th Street,  San Francisco,  CA 94103&quot;}}]&lt;\/script&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Notice all the \\u00a0 and \\u2019 and \\u201d things in there? it&#8217;s messed up! 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