Punycode

fs.readdirSync(blogPostDir)
 
  .map((fileName) => {
    // we need the full path of the file to be able to read it
 
    const fullPath = path.join(blogPostDir, fileName);
 
    // read the file so we can grab the front matter
 
    const file = fs.readFileSync(fullPath, "utf8");
 
    // for the RSS feed we don't need the html, we
 
    // just want the attributes
 
    const { data: frontmatter, content } = matter(file);
 
    const excerpt = getExcerpt(content, 800);
 
    const url = CONFIG.URL + `/posts/` + fileName.replace(".md", "") + `/`;
 
    // console.log(excerpt);
 
    // I want access to the fileName later on so we save it to our object
 
    return { ...frontmatter, fileName, excerpt, url };
  })
 
  // sort the items by date in descending order, feel free
 
  // to customize this as needed to sort your RSS items properly
 
  .filter((post) => post.draft === false)
 
  .sort((a, b) => +new Date(b.date) - +new Date(a.date))
 
  // loop over each blog post and add it to our RSS feed
 
  .forEach(({ title, date, tags, category, fileName, excerpt, url }) => {
    // title, description, and date are properties of my front matter
 
    // attributes. Yours might be different depending on your data structure
 
    feed.item({
      title,
 
      description: excerpt,
 
      url: punycode.encode(url),
 
      author: CONFIG.AUTHOR_NAME,
 
      categories: tags,
 
      date,
    });
  });