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    Posted: 14 April 2006 at 2:47pm
The release version still appears to have a problem with its RSS reader using IE.
 
 
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This is something that has been worked on to try and fix, but I guess there is still and issue with IE that occurs with certain characters.

I will look again and see if I can find a solution to this.
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It's not validating.  I think its a problem with the encoding.  Perhaps the data entered in the post / database is not UTF-8, yet your feed says that's what it should be.  The offending text appears to be in ISO-8859-1 encoding.  (Notice the ? instead of the ' in the word "what's" when you view it in the FireFox Browser.)

I think that the webmaster should be able to change the encoding.  I prefer ISO-8859-1 myself.  In WWF 7.x FireFox tries rendering the forum pages in UTF-8 instead of ISO-8859-1, which is what the text was actually encoded in.  It causes all the ' to turn into ? which is annoying.
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http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/UnicodeError.html

It looks like you either need to turn curly quotes into regular quotes, and curly apostrophes into regular apostrophes... or you need to change the encoding to ISO-8859-1, which allows those characters.


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The encoding UTF-8 in tests worked the best.

I have been looking into this issue as I did do exhustive testing on this due to problems in previous versions and couldn't workout why you got this issue.

Anyway, the single quote ' that is coursing the issue in your subjects should be there as it should have been encoded on the way into the database for security reasons. This is why it didn't come up in testing.

The only thing I can think is that the version you upgraded from was modified or didn't encode the ' singe quote mark.

The only thing I therefore can suggest is that you leave it and see if the problem sorts itself out in the new version as new posts come in.
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The version I upgraded from was installed without any modifications - I will delete the problematic post and see if I can recreate it.
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I can recreate the problem by putting the character either into a post body or forum topic - for example
 
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Should cause the RSS feed to fail with an error
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Wistex is correct - if you change the encoding of the rss feed to ISO-8859-1 you no longer get the error as you can see http://www.bhpc.org.uk/forum8/RSS_topic_feed.asp.
 
Presumably this is because this is how its encoded in the database.
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