RSS Importer and non-english languages

[wolfheart]

Hi,
I have an issue with RSS importer. it works great and everything, but with English or Latin based languages.

when it comes to other languages like Arabic, it works find but it can't grab the words for tagging.

so the end result the tag cloud has not tags for the new added titles.

is there is any way to solve that.

[wolfheart]

I think the issue is with the following function in tags.php file

function tags_normalize_string($string) {
$string = preg_replace('/[\.\,] *$/', "", $string);
$string = str_replace(array(chr(216).chr(140),'+'),array(',' ,','),$string);
return utf8_strtolower($string);
}

any ideas?

[wolfheart]

did any one manage to make the TAG feature in RSS importer work with Arabic, Hebrew or any non Latin language, if yes how?