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RSS help

Halley Suitt:  Can anyone help me out with an RSS error?  Short answer: turn off smart-quotes.

The RSS validator will provide a clearer error message.  The problem is that your weblog contains characters which will not be read the same by everybody on all platforms.  You can fess up by changing the first line of your RSS feed to declare the character set, i.e., something like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?>

Or, you can simply change the characters to something more universal.  There are even tools that can help.

The email he got didn't tell him everything that IE displayed. Going directly to the blog URL from IE gives me

An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource 'http://halleyscomment.blogspot.com/rss/halleyscomment.xml'. Line 18, Position 425

which is about the same as that given by your RSS validator.

Posted by Dare Obasanjo at

I like to keep quotes clean on the backend, and 'curl' them on presentation. I've got a function for PHP and directions for MT.

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