From 0750f30254f1f0f76194b098cc92ec75f96f838a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josh Crawford <joshua@sgroup.com.au>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 09:38:27 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] fix for json parsing when special characters in feed content

---
 feedme/services/FeedMe_FeedJSONService.php | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/feedme/services/FeedMe_FeedJSONService.php b/feedme/services/FeedMe_FeedJSONService.php
index c2b4ed21..ecd683f0 100644
--- a/feedme/services/FeedMe_FeedJSONService.php
+++ b/feedme/services/FeedMe_FeedJSONService.php
@@ -12,8 +12,12 @@ public function getFeed($url, $primaryElement) {
             return false;
         }
 
+        // Perform cleanup on raw data first
+        $raw_content = preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", " ", $raw_content);
+        $json = utf8_encode($raw_content);
+
         // Parse the JSON string
-        $json_array = json_decode($raw_content, true);
+        $json_array = json_decode($json, true);
 
         // Look for and return only the items for primary element
         $json_array = craft()->feedMe_feed->findPrimaryElement($primaryElement, $json_array);