Answers.Body: <p>You shouldn't need any <code>convert_encoding</code> here. From your results, the special characters are coming out fine, it's your <code>&amp;nbsp</code> that is your problem. </p>
  
  <p>For this to go you can use the <code>|raw</code> Twig filter.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Hi and thanks. Sorry for the delay, had to pivot to another project. I did try {{ item.articleBodySpanish.type('bodyText')[0].bodyText|striptags|raw|slice(0, 200)|default('Lee mas') }} but it still gives me the version with good special characters but uninterpreted &nbsp; ... what am I missing? Thanks again.
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Body: <p>Standard "when article has no summary, output the first 200 characters of the body minus HTML" logic going on here. We're implementing some Spanish-language features for the first time and, while special characters are stored fine in the database (utf_unicode_ci collation) and they output fine on the front end when convert_encoding isn't applied, they come out garbled when convert_encoding is applied.</p>
  
  <p>My code is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{{ item.articleBodySpanish.type('bodyText')[0].bodyText|striptags|convert_encoding('UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES')|slice(0, 200)|default('Lee mas') }}...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have an entry where the database contains this for articleBodySpanish: </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;p&gt;Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.&amp;nbsp;Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.&lt;/p&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>With the code above, the output I get is as follows:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Empuja sus puÃ±os contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas. Empuja sus puÃ±os contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If I remove the <strong>|convert_encoding('UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES')</strong> the output becomes this, so I can't even just take it out to moot the issue:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.&amp;nbsp;Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>What can I do here?</p>
  
Tags: <templating>
Title: convert_encoding is screwing up Spanish-language characters
ThreadText: # convert_encoding is screwing up Spanish-language characters
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2019-03-03)
  
  Standard "when article has no summary, output the first 200 characters of the body minus HTML" logic going on here. We're implementing some Spanish-language features for the first time and, while special characters are stored fine in the database (utf\_unicode\_ci collation) and they output fine on the front end when convert\_encoding isn't applied, they come out garbled when convert\_encoding is applied.
  
  My code is:
  
  ```
  {{ item.articleBodySpanish.type('bodyText')[0].bodyText|striptags|convert_encoding('UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES')|slice(0, 200)|default('Lee mas') }}...
  
  ```
  
  I have an entry where the database contains this for articleBodySpanish:
  
  ```
  <p>Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.&nbsp;Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.</p>
  
  ```
  
  With the code above, the output I get is as follows:
  
  ```
  Empuja sus puÃ±os contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas. Empuja sus puÃ±os contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.
  
  ```
  
  If I remove the **|convert\_encoding('UTF-8', 'HTML-ENTITIES')** the output becomes this, so I can't even just take it out to moot the issue:
  
  ```
  Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.&nbsp;Empuja sus puños contra los postes y sigue insistiendo en que ve a los fantasmas.
  
  ```
  
  What can I do here?
  
  **Tags:** templating
  
  
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  ## 1 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2019-03-03. Score: 1 | Accepted answer
  
  You shouldn't need any `convert_encoding` here. From your results, the special characters are coming out fine, it's your `&nbsp` that is your problem.
  
  For this to go you can use the `|raw` Twig filter.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Hi and thanks. Sorry for the delay, had to pivot to another project. I did try {{ item.articleBodySpanish.type('bodyText')[0].bodyText|striptags|raw|slice(0, 200)|default('Lee mas') }} but it still gives me the version with good special characters but uninterpreted &nbsp; ... what am I missing? Thanks again.  
  > **username_0**: ahh, I didn't actually realize that |raw had to be the last filter. that did it.  
  
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