{"id":960745,"date":"2015-05-06T04:34:53","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T11:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/invalid-ical-file-due-to-encoding\/"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:48:22","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T20:48:22","slug":"invalid-ical-file-due-to-encoding","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/invalid-ical-file-due-to-encoding\/","title":{"rendered":"Invalid iCal File due to encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey,<\/p>\n<p>i just noticed that my exported ical-files are all currupted, neither Apples iCal nor Google Calendar accept my exports recently.<\/p>\n<p>After quite some digging i found that the organizers data (and it&#8217;s encoding) causes this since some organizers have special characters in its title which get escaped within the tribe_get_organizer function via <code>esc_html()<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>i decided to use this fix for now:<\/p>\n<pre><code>add_filter( 'tribe_ical_feed_item', 'fix_tribe_ical', 10, 2 );\r\nfunction fix_tribe_ical( $item, $event_id  ) {\r\n\r\n\t$searchValue = \"ORGANIZER;CN\";\r\n\t$fl_array    = preg_grep( '\/^' . \"$searchValue\" . '.*\/', $item );\r\n\t$keynum      = key( $fl_array );\r\n\r\n\tif( !empty($fl_array) AND isset($item[ $keynum ]) ) {\r\n\t        $item[ $keynum ] = html_entity_decode($item[ $keynum ], ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');\r\n\t}\r\n\r\n\treturn $item;\r\n}<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>Please fix this because this issue is able to completey break the ical export functionality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-960745","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Invalid iCal File due to encoding -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/invalid-ical-file-due-to-encoding\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Invalid iCal File due to encoding -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hey, i just noticed that my exported ical-files are all currupted, neither Apples iCal nor Google Calendar accept my exports recently. 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